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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)

SLA at 115: Welcoming Our Future

April 1, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

Guy St. Clair was recently invited to write for the re-launched Information Outlook, the professional journal of the Special Libraries Association. Guy had previously written SLA at 100: From “Putting Knowledge To Work” to Building the Knowledge Culture—A Centennial History of SLA (The Special Libraries Association) 1909-2009, published in 2009. An online version of SLA’s …

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Filed Under: Journal, Knowledge Services, Personal History, Specialized Librarianship Tagged With: De Gruyter Saur, Hesselbein (Frances), Knowledge Culture, knowledge management, Knowledge Revolution, Knowledge Services, Knowledge Sharing, leadership, Root (Elihu), Seneca, SLA, Special Library, Specialized Librarianship, strategic learning

The Frick’s Angel

February 25, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

[Special thanks to Kevin Manion for his generous assistance with this post, originally published June 24, 2022.] Since you are reading what is generally referred to as “Guy’s personal blog,” it makes a certain kind of sense to say, once again, how we New Yorkers seem to have a special appreciation for what is available …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Current Events, History, Personal History, Uncategorized Tagged With: Barbet (Jean), Breuer (Marcel), Cocktails with a Curator, Dalvit (Giulio), Frick (Henry Clay), Frick Collection, Frick Madison (New York City), Salomon (Xavier F)

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