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About Guy St. Clair

Guy St. Clair teaches at Columbia University in the City of New York. His subject is knowledge services, an approach to managing intellectual capital that merges information management (including technology management), knowledge management, and strategic learning. His personal interests are varied, with primary attention given to all forms of classical music (especially opera), art (special interest in the works of the Impressionists), design (focusing on Art Nouveau), travel, and, to a certain extent, natural history (he is a great lover of elephants, thinking of the elephant as one of the noblest of creatures). Guy thinks of himself as something of an old-fashioned flâneur, observing what he sees around himself and learning from what he sees.

A “Tannhäuser” to Remember

December 2, 2023 By Guy St. Clair

We opera goers often find ourselves using the term “unforgettable.” In New York, the idea took on an even more special meaning last Thursday night. Many of us were at the Metropolitan Opera for the first performance of the revival of Wagner’s Tannhäuser, not heard here for a few years . I’m a big fan …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Journal, Music, Personal History Tagged With: Barone (Joshua), Climate Activists, Extinction Rebellion, Gerhaher (Christian), Metropolitan Opera Association, Protests, Schenk (Otto), Tannhäuser (opera), van der Heever (Eliza), Wagner (Richard)

Milan: Raphael’s “The School of Athens” and Me

November 15, 2023 By Guy St. Clair

[In brief.] Last spring, I had an experience in Milan that surprised me and left me thinking about the effect of remembering things that had happened earlier in my life. My years at university (in his case the University of Virginia in Charlottesville) took place a long time ago, and as with most people, it …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Journal, Music, Personal History Tagged With: Berner (Andrew), Charlottesville (Virginia), Jefferson (Thomas), Kitt (Sandra), Milan (Biblioteca Ambrosiana), Milan (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana), Povoledo (Elisabetta), Proust (Marcel), Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael), Raphael, Ross (Nigel J.), School of Athens, University of Virginia

Milan: La Biblioteca Ambrosiana / La Pinacoteca Ambrosiana

October 14, 2023 By Guy St. Clair

It’s clear by now: Guy fell hard for this glorious city.  And, yes, he will return to Milan when he has the chance.  Until then, these “digital postcards” and the upcoming personal essay will have to do for sharing some of my favorite memories with friends. Of course I can’t write about everything I saw and …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Borromeo (Cardinal Federico), Milan (Academy of Fine Arts), Milan (Ambrosian Gallery), Milan (Ambrosian Library), Milan (Biblioteca Ambrosiana), Milan (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana), Murphy (Cullen)

Milan: Cimitero Monumentale

September 6, 2023 By Guy St. Clair

During last spring’s Milan visit, Sandra Kitt and I had an afternoon at the city’s Cimitero Monumentale. This impressive urban space is one of the city’s two largest cemeteries (the other being the Cimitero Maggiore), and both were created to provide an alternative to the many small cemeteries located throughout the city. Designed by the …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: <Milan: Cimitero Monumentale, Figes (Orlando), First Romanesque, Italy, Kennicott (Phulip), Kitt (Sandra), Liberal Catholicism, Lombard Romanesque, Manzoni (Alessandro), Metropolitan Opera Association, Milan (Cimitero Maggione, Milan (Cimitero Monumentale), Opera News (journal), Verdi - Manzoni Requiem, Verdi (Giuseppe)

Milan – A Visit to La Scala (In Brief)

August 5, 2023 By Guy St. Clair

Last spring’s visit to Milan was very special, for many reasons. Primarily, though, we seriously enjoy opera, and if Milan is a destination for tourists in general, within the city Teatro La Scala is the sine qua non for opera lovers. We were hardly settled into our hotel (about three New York-style “short” blocks from …

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Filed Under: Journal, Music, Personal History Tagged With: Andrea Chénier (opera), Eyvazov (Yusef), Flórez (Juan Diego), Isotton (Chiara), La Scala, Lucia de Lammermoor (opera), Milan (opera), Oropresa (Lisette), Zeffirelli (Franco)

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Recent Posts

  • A “Tannhäuser” to Remember December 2, 2023
  • Milan: Raphael’s “The School of Athens” and Me November 15, 2023
  • Milan: La Biblioteca Ambrosiana / La Pinacoteca Ambrosiana October 14, 2023
  • Milan: Cimitero Monumentale September 6, 2023
  • Milan – A Visit to La Scala (In Brief) August 5, 2023
  • Milan – Teatro alla Scala (2) August 5, 2023
  • Current: Dictatorship or Democracy? July 26, 2023
  • Milan: A Remarkable City July 8, 2023
  • Reading: The Oppermanns March 28, 2023
  • Vancouver: The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art March 14, 2023
  • Vancouver: Bill Reid’s Monumental Sculpture March 6, 2023
  • Opera Diary: A Concert for Ukraine February 27, 2023
  • Vancouver: Northwest Coast Art February 15, 2023
  • Applied Knowledge Services: A New Approach to Management and Leadership February 8, 2023
  • Humanist Management and Knowledge Services: What Do We Get? February 8, 2023
  • Tim Wood Powell on The Value of Knowledge February 8, 2023
  • Frances Hesselbein: A Friend of the Heart, Forever January 23, 2023
  • Personal History: Knowing Frances Hesselbein January 23, 2023
  • The Power of Purpose January 19, 2023
  • Opera Diary: The Hours – A Follow-Up December 16, 2022

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