The news of Mstislav Rostropovich’s passing spread around quickly this morning. At this moment I am listening to the final bars of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with Rostropovich and the London Philharmonic, via YouTube (via Marc Geelhoed). Remarkably, it is the first music I have heard him perform. I have only really been in the...
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I have been swamped lately, and thus left little time for blogging. This post will be brief, even though there is much to write. The last two weeks the news went from lighthearted articles such as the Washington Post’s story about Joshua Bell performing in a subway station and earning little more than pocket...
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Communicators for Obama (tags: blogosphere new_media politics public_relations) The Great Newspaper Comments Debate (tags: media new_media) TAFTO 2007 Contribution – James W. Palermo (tags: arts_management classical_music marketing) Online Conservapedia pitched as conservative alternative to Wikipedia (tags: new_media politics) Lyric’s young pros rise to challenging show (tags: chicago classical_music cultural_affairs) A Writer’s Passover (tags: philosophy)
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Ben Wallace-Wells writes a fantastic article for The New York Times featuring David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s chief strategist, or by his own description the “keeper of the message.” The article demonstrates the crucial role of biographies, storytelling and the hero’s journey. Barack Obama has currently two memoirs in circulation. The first, Dreams From My...
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