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Naxos cut its teeth on this kind of recording. Two sturdy Beethoven symphonies are played by a Central European (in this case Hungarian) orchestra with good, serviceable effect. Continue Reading »
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Sergei Rachmaninoff’s music for piano and orchestra is easy to love. Its lyrical romanticism and connections with successors that lead even to jazz piano tend to be accessible to contemporary listeners. It is some of the most stirring music ever written, though it does not earn the respect of work written by canonical masters of the genre like Mozart and Beethoven. Continue Reading »
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I find Brahms’ symphonies ponderous, at least over against his undeniable brillance with, say, a violin concerto. Continue Reading »
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Leave it to the apostle Paul, that most bodacious of the Jesus movement’s constitutive generation, to speak in such extreme terms. Where others might have spoken of humankind’s ability to improve, repent, achieve, and so forth—with God’s good help as the wind in our sails—Paul simply says we are dead. Unable. Inert. Incapable. Clueless. Cold. Continue Reading »
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Let’s face it, us middle-aged guys really only read the third of, say, MOTORCYCLIST that concerns the big bikes with the fat seats. The rest of it breeds in us a slow boil of resentment—of course we’re not aware we’re feeling this, cuz were guys—at the little, fast bikes that are ridden by little, fast people.
We need a magazine about bikes with big, wide seats. Like ours. Continue Reading »
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Pity Alfred Brendel, Neville Marriner, and the incomparable Academy of St Martin in the Fields having to play this luscious span of concertos from the sweet spot of Mozart’s oeuvre.
If there is sweeter music in the universe, it must lie at the depths of the sea or some equally inaccessible place, far from eyes and ears that could compare it to Mozart’s piano concertos no. 19-24. Continue Reading »
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When David Halberstam stops writing about sports–God delay the day–he will go down as one of the great English-language sportswriters of all time. Rarely does a writer on serious topics, and he writes on sport as a most serious enterprise, excel in such varied genres as political history (‘The Best and the Brightest’) and sport. Continue Reading »
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This cool-looking, petite but not-too-small-for-human-thumbs device goes with me everywhere in my car to record those thoughts that only reach their crystalline brilliance in the shower and behind the wheel.
Because I follow David Allen’s Getting-Things-Done approach of relieving my brain of remembering stuff so that it can do the creative and productive thinking it does best, I need to transition other thoughts immediately to a safe written or recorded medium that will allow me to return to them at the right moment. Written communication from behind the wheel of a car has always been a little precarious, so I’ve sworn off it entirely except at red lights. Continue Reading »
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Rebecca Blood loves her craft.
In a world moving as fast as the cyberworld is, a book written in 2002 and reviewed now in 2007 is bound to show its age. The Weblog Handbook does so.
Yet for sheer, innocent (but not inexpert), joyful description of a weblog community that discovered itself almost accidentally between 1999 and 2002, this delightful little book is both a period piece and a still-useful introduction to weblogging for novices. Continue Reading »
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Twenty years ago the air above the narrow street outside our little row house in Costa Rica used to teem with swallows dashing about in the later afternoon coolness. I loved to watch their antics, finding in their effortless twists and turns a vicarious agility.
When we moved house and the swallows were no longer part of our end-of-day joys, I knew that I must someday remedy this situation by having a Purple Martin house that would persuade the similar martins to take us into their company. Continue Reading »
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Canter Bridge 