Notebook June 2023
Roman Romanticism
On Francis Marion Crawford’s Saracinesca tetralogy.
Department: “Notebook”
Notebook May 2023
Word of mouth
On reading & writing aloud.
Notebook April 2023
Time was
On the life of Time magazine.
Notebook February 2023
Salvator organum
On the history of the pipe organ.
Notebook January 2023
Paeans to the potables
On the history of drinking songs.
Notebook December 2022
Ruth Slenczynska at ninety-seven
On the pianist’s career and method.
Notebook October 2022
De la musique avant toute chose
On Edward Lipman and a family piano.
Notebook September 2022
Four hundred years of Molière
On the career of the French playwright.
Notebook May 2022
All the rest is talk
On the Broadway lyric.
Notebook February 2022
Wayne Thiebaud, 1920–2021
On the life & work of the American painter.