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Personal History

Guy’s Journey Continues – More “Reinventing”?

February 5, 2012 By Guy St. Clair

Happy to be back. And I can’t think of a more appropriate subject to begin with than how we think about our work and how we organize our lives so we have satisfying work. It’s a challenge to make it all come together. In our quest, we make much of Mr. Drucker’s recommendation to “reinvent …

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Filed Under: Personal History Tagged With: Columbia University (IKnS), Daily Drucker, Drucker (Peter), Guy St. Clair's Knowledge Services Newsletter, New York, New York - Columbia University, SMR, SMR Special Reports, St. Clair (Guy)

Ten Years Later

September 11, 2011 By Guy St. Clair

The New York Philharmonic seemed to set the stage for me. Like most New Yorkers, I was approaching this anniversary with a slight sense of trepidation. After 9/11, people throughout the world had been greatly sympathetic and supportive to the citizens of New York, Washington, and that tiny community in Pennsylvania where the fourth airplane …

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Filed Under: History, Music, Personal History

“Arcadia”

May 27, 2011 By Guy St. Clair

We New Yorkers take great pride in having so many cultural activities at hand, and truth to tell, thanks to an ever-growing interest in the arts throughout America, New York isn’t all that unique anymore. Some of our country’s best theater performances take place in other places, and certainly New York has its competition when …

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Filed Under: Personal History Tagged With: " Stoppard (Tom) Kendal (Felicity), "Arcadia, Crudup (Billy), Repton (Humphry)

Opera: Farewell to Dame Joan Sutherland

May 24, 2011 By Guy St. Clair

Many thanks to the Metropolitan Opera Guild for the beautiful program in memory of Dame Joan Sutherland, presented last Tuesday night (May 17, 2011). Since her death on October 10, 2010, there had been two memorial services, including a State Memorial Service on November 9, 2010 at the Sydney Opera House and a service held …

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Filed Under: Music, Personal History Tagged With: Bonynge (Richard), Horne (Marilyn), Metropolitan Opera Association, opera singers, Sutherland (Dame Joan)

Guy’s African Family (Complete with Namesake)

April 24, 2011 By Guy St. Clair

As these African notes begin to wind down (after all, it’s now been nearly four months since I left Nairobi and the wonderful friends I got to know throughout Kenya), it seems appropriate to share a few more photographs of my African “family.” While I had noted the relationship in a previous post, there had …

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Filed Under: Personal History Tagged With: Kenya - Nyanguru Village nr. Kisii, Masese (Charles Ombongi), Masese (Claire Kwamboka Ombongi)

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