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April 8, 2011
in History, Humanities, Literature, Margellos Series

To London, with Love: Further Travels to Spain

April 8, 2011
in History, Humanities, Literature, Margellos Series

Ivan Lett When I noted previously that I’m a fan of British Hispanists, I left out Hugh Thomas’s narratives of Spanish history, and he has published many. Notably from YUP, The Beaumarchais in Seville tells the story of the French Revolutionary Pierre Beaumarchais and his travels to Madrid, 1764-65 (he

February 15, 2011
in African American Studies, American History, Humanities

Notes from a Native New Yorker: Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess”

February 15, 2011
in African American Studies, American History, Humanities

Michelle Stein George Gershwin’s music is a near inimitable part of American culture. Though he lived a short life, dying at the age of thirty-eight, the work he composed during his life offered a long-lasting heritage and contribution to American musicals and concert pieces. In 1935, Gershwin’s American folk opera

June 17, 2009
in Humanities

An aural history of the tenor

June 17, 2009
in Humanities

Opera singers might seem out of place in a era of American Idol and MP3s; however, the tenor’s voice is as much a mainstay of classical music as it is of modern rock, country, and R&B. In his new book The Tenor, John Potter maps the history of the tenor.

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To London, with Love: Further Travels to Spain

Notes from a Native New Yorker: Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess”

An aural history of the tenor