Denk Again
The return of a long-neglected blog about classical music and any number of weird subjects
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Emily Wilson and Beethoven (opens the original)
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An important artistic device appears in the first line of Emily Wilson’s recent review, when she describes Nolan’s Odyssey as an excellent way to escape the heat. But soon we get an even finer example:My teenagers had a good time.This device is—of course—a troll. What gives this troll a special kick is that she is not only trolling the teenage mindset of American blockbuster movies; she is also low-key trolling her own children! That takes
In a Fever (opens the original)
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Upon arrival in the paradise of Santa Barbara, I got a hellacious flu and had to cancel my recital. I spent days without free will, crawling in and out of bed like an animal, sweating and shaking and consuming fluids in an red-tile-roof apartment with a panoramic view of mesas sloping down to an unseen ocean. I’d fall asleep in the late afternoon and wake while the dawn was a thick marine layer. For an hour, the view was dark flocks of birds flying against endless gray—a haunting black-and-white
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