May 2025
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Is just “Sayers” enough, or should I have said “Dorothy L. Sayers”? She was particular about the “L,” which stands for “Leigh, her maiden name. Her last name is perhaps right at the threshold of fame where it needs no additional specification. It’s enough for me–I don’t know another literary Sayers–but perhaps not for the…
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I may have mentioned in a post on one of the other Beethoven piano concertos that I thought I had heard the 5th (the "Emperor") in the probably fairly distant past, but didn't remember it at all. Yet when I listened to it a few weeks ago I recognized it instantly. The entire first movement…
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The fairly small number of Hardy’s poems that I read as an undergraduate have been among my favorites ever since. “The Darkling Thrush,” for instance, is one that I probably think of as often as I think of any poetry, and I made it the first in the 52 Poems series that appeared here in…
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I had planned to post this last week, but a combination of computer problems and the nastiest cold I've had for some time got in the way. Last Sunday afternoon I heard the Mobile Symphony and the University of South Alabama Concert Choir in the Messiah–the first time I'd ever heard it performed live, and at…
Light On Dark Water 