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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

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 – 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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