Monthly Archives: January 2008

As opposed to the insubstantial jangling below, here’s Sir Colin Davis conducting the Lacrymosa from the Berlioz Requiem: Persuasive advocates like Sir Colin that expanded our knowledge of the the music of Berlioz. For the Philips label Davis recorded most … Continue reading →

The Cattle Baroness came in third last night in the Ioway caucuses, a stinging blow to her image of inevitability. Mark Steyn makes a point I’ve long held: The Clintons’ leadership of the Democratic Party was great for the Clintons, … Continue reading →

Here’s a couple of classical music’s A-listers, Artur Rubenstein and Eugene Ormandy, unsuccessfully expending their considerable efforts justfying Leith Stevens’ Piano Concerto in C minor in the movie Night Song. In a review of this film, Bosley Crowther said, “But … Continue reading →

Growing up near Philadelphia, I read the Bulletin, the afternoon newspaper; the reputation of the morning Inquirer at the time was quite low. And why shouldn’t I have? Their motto was “Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin.” By 1970 the Annenberg … Continue reading →

Nobel-prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman says: Taking even a cursory stock of current events, I am driven to the ultimately wise advice of my Columbia mentor, I.I. Rabi, who, in our many corridor bull sessions, urged his students to run for … Continue reading →

If you thought the presidential campaign lasts too long, you can add to it the quadrennial whining from abroad, of which Simon Heffer seems to have the first sob: I doubt we shall be much the wiser on Friday about … Continue reading →

Details about the horrific Seattle killings have emerged: Court documents said McEnroe, a store clerk, and Anderson, who is unemployed, told detectives they armed themselves on Christmas Eve and went to her parents’ home near Carnation, about 25 miles east … Continue reading →