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Berlin: Another “City of Music”?

February 10, 2025 By Guy St. Clair

My enthusiasm for musical performances seems to take on some sort of overwhelming urgency when I travel. As a result, I’ve been known to use the “city of music” description as I move about, especially in Europe. I’ve used the phrase when I write of Vienna (which really does call itself such in the city’s …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Journal, Music, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Barocke Weilhnacht, Berlin, Berlin (Christmas 2024), Die Meistersinger von Nüremberg, Il viaggio a Reims (opera), Lucia de Lammermoor (opera), Maltman (Christopher), Music (Baroque), RIAS Kammerchor Berlin

January 20, 2025: Honoring Dr. King

January 20, 2025 By Guy St. Clair

My calendar tells me that today is Martin Luther King Day. This federal holiday honors the civil rights leader and is also recognized as a national day of service, encouraging Americans to volunteer in their communities. And as we seek to speak with our friends, our children, our grandchildren, and, yes, for some of us, …

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Filed Under: Current Events, History, Journal Tagged With: Civil Rights Movement, King (Martin Luther Jr.), Martin Luther King Day, Richardson (Heather Cox)

A Remarkable Opera Experience

December 10, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

The MET’s Die Frau ohne Schatten Although I’m writing from Berlin (after a fast journey from New York), I’m still basking in the glow of another remarkable performance at the Metropolitan Opera. And—not surprising anyone who knows me—I’m happy to share a few thoughts and my enthusiasm here. At last Wednesday’s performance of Die Frau …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Journal, Music, Personal History Tagged With: Die Frau ohne Schatten (opera), Mann (William), Metropolitan Opera Association, Porter (Andrew), Strauss (Richard), von Hofmannsthal (Hugo), Woolfe (Zachery)

Elephants Galore

September 28, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

Until October 20th, we New Yorkers can see a spectacular art installation here in the city. It’s called “The Great Elephant Migration,” and the project features 100 life-size sculptures of Indian elephants crafted over the last five years by the Coexistence Collective, a team of 200 Indigenous artisans from Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in South India. I gather from …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Current Events, Journal Tagged With: Artnet, Cascone (Sarah), Coexistencee Collective, Elephant Family USA, Elephants, Gansevoort Place (New York City), Meatpacking District (New York), Nigiri Biosphere Reserve, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, The Great Elephant Migration

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)

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