I'll think of something later

An impressionistic outlet for some of those thoughts, musical and otherwise, I don't have a chance to air in the media

Showing posts with label Stalin. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Stalin. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 April 2021

Zooming Albert, Tito, and Russians from 1948

It seems appropriate to kick off the summer term of my Opera in Depth Zoom course with Britten's Albert Herring* , that Maupassant-adap...

Monday, 1 March 2021

The Terror novel

None could be more authentic than Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev ; he lived through the earlier waves of eliminations and w...

Monday, 30 July 2018

War and disquiet with Grossman and Lipke

Two remarkable men, a Russian and a Latvian, share equal honours here for respective perfection of the work and of the life. Above is Va...

Saturday, 13 February 2016

Tsars now and then

This one stands roughly in relation to that one as did Boris Godunov (c.1551-1605) to Ivan IV, 'the Terrible' (1530-1...

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