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Digital Postcard: Memorial Day Greetings from Germany

May 27, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

Dear Friends, A quick message from Germany, as our Viking cruise takes us to a few more famous sites (Nuremberg, Passau, and the Benedictine Abbey at Melk). Then on to Vienna (which we’re very much anticipating, since it’s a city we dearly love). We’ll end with Budapest so I can soak up all the Art …

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Filed Under: Current Events, History Tagged With: Bamberg (Germany), Burdpest, Germany, Melk (Benedictine Abbey), Memorial Day (USA), Netherlands, Nurenberg (Germany), Richardson (Heater Cox), Vienna, World War II

Digital Postcard: Hello from Madrid (but Sent from Amsterdam)

May 17, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

Hello (again) from Amsterdam. Here’s our post from last week, re-sent with the photographs inserted as part of the text (using the blog format instead of the email format): We’ve been here in Amsterdam for a while, and I don’t think you’ll be surprised to know that we’re loving it.  And the title is a …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Amsterdam, Berner (Andrew), Kitt, Kitt (Sandra), Madrid, Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Toledo, Toledo (cathedral), van Eyck (Jan)

Proust: A Family Reading Milestone

April 18, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

Andrew and I have now completed the Modern Library edition of In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust’s monumental work. Early in 2023, we turned the final page of “Time Regained,” and closed the sixth volume of the 1981/1991 edition, wrapping up at page 2616. This translation, by D.J. Enright (1992) builds on C.K. Scott …

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Filed Under: Journal, Personal History Tagged With: antisemitism, aristocracy, Dreyfus Affair, La Belle Époque, Le Cercle de la rue Royale (painting), Malabou (Catherine), Proust (Marcel), social status, Swann (Charles - fictional character), Tissot (James)

Vienna: Collected Posts

April 16, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

For some blog posts in Sharing Guy’s Journey—when several have been written over a period of time about a particular subject—it is best to have them compiled into a list, which I’ll try to do with groups of posts in the future. “Search the website” is a useful too, but it searches by word, and …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Music, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Vienna (various posts)

A Conductor For Our Time: Klaus Mäkelä

April 1, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

For Guy’s friends who fear that classical music (for him) means just opera, here’s another perspective: We’re hearing lots about conductors these days, and while I would be the last person to slight Bradley Cooper’s brilliant Maestro (I loved it), I’m also happy to invite readers and friends to learn about a young man who …

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Filed Under: Journal, Music, Personal History Tagged With: Arod Quartet, Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouworkest, Cooper (Bradley), Jolly (James), Maestro (film), Maher (Gustav), Mäkelä (Klaus), Monsaingeon (Bruno), musicmakers, Orchestre de Paris, Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Stravinsky (Igor)

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