February 2007
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Mozart: Piano Quartet in Gm (K.478) I think I know why this quartet, which is an earlier composition than the Eb (K.493), follows it on the cd. The matter was clarified by a fragment of conversation I heard on the radio on my way home a night or two ago: a journalist was interviewing a…
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The 2006 Music of the Week archive is finished. I didn't realize I had quite as many gaps as I do. I'll start a 2007 list and try to keep it more current. Part of the reason I did this, by the way, is that there is now an eMusic blog, and Yancey Strickler kindly…
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Chickens, Eggs, and Spirits I’ve thought for many years that Jung was onto something with his idea of a collective unconscious, a subterranean movement of thought and sentiment that affects many people at once and may produce similar manifestations simultaneously in different places. There are a number of examples of this in the history of…
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…of what I was talking about recently when I said neither the left nor the right really cares about the village anymore. Here's a reminiscence about a drugstore in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, a town which was having a hard enough time before Katrina half-destroyed it. To most of the right, this sort of business…
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May 7 – King Crimson: Red May 14 – Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Inner Mounting Flame May 21 – Galaxy 500: This Is Our Music May 28 – Jimi Hendrix: First Rays of the New Rising Sun June 4 – Massive Attack: Mezzanine June 11 – Neko Case: Blacklisted June 18 – no entry June 25…
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This is not the first time that I've come across evidence of the need for remediation in some quarters with respect to the nature and works of the baby boomer. The Anchoress has a blog that I read occasionally and enjoy. But like a few others I've come across here and there, she has an…
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From Kansas City Catholic. (Hat tip to my old friend Robert.) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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…is that most people get Mardi Gras off–"Mardi Gras Day," as we redundantly call the Tuesday itself, to distinguish it from the season, and sometimes the day before. Alas, Ash Wednesday is typically not included. May I confess that I always rather dread Ash Wednesday? I don't do even mild fasting very well at all,…
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Some items related to recent posts and/or comments: Reader rjp linked to this piece by Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., on the inapplicability of the terms "liberal" and "conservative" to most of life's questions. "There is, in the end, something beyond liberal and conservative. That is the truth of things according to which we have…
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Atheistic Evolution: The Plausible Myth In a discussion here a couple of weeks ago, I bemoaned the influence of the theory of evolution with some scattershot comments that never quite said what I meant. I’m going to try to clarify that now. In my title I mean “myth” in the sense of a story that…
Light On Dark Water 