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Inspiration. Digital Art by Edward Kliszus

Criticism

A Conversation About Reviews

A conversation about reviews begins with the consideration of a critic and author who is inspired by and appreciates the arts. Indeed, with a passion

August 26, 2023

Title page of the autographed score of Dvořák's Ninth Symphony. Public Domain

Criticism

Largo from Dvořák’s New World Symphony

The Largo creates a virtual world within itself through its formal structures, expressing feelings associated with nostalgia, homesickness, death, and a yearning for the afterlife and, perhaps, better times. According to Anton Seidl, conductor of the NY Philharmonic Society orchestra for the 1893 world premiere of the work at Carnegie Hall, “it is not a good name, New World Symphony — it is homesickness, home longing (Biancolli 1947, 240).”

September 16, 2021

Cobbe portrait of Shakespeare. Public Domain

Criticism

Shakespeare in the Afternoon

Shakespeare in the Afternoon is a group of erudite literati together for their weekly intellectual repast of reading Shakespeare.

September 14, 2021

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