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3 days ago · My review for Gramophone of the new concert recording of John Adams's Girls of the Golden West, which has been selected as an Editor's Choice for June 2024: The opera repertoire would be considerably diminished if composers had abandoned their ‘problem children’ at the first sign of trouble. John Adams confronted one of the biggest….
4 days ago · 34 Other writers who sometimes added sketches to their texts include Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gottfried Keller, Wilhelm Raabe, and Heinrich Mann. Excerpts of their draftsmanship can be found in Ernst Scheidegger, ed., Dichtende Maler, Malende Dichter (Zürich: Peter Schifferli Verlags-AG, 1957) and in Kurt Böttcher and Johannes Mittenzwei, eds ...
1 day ago · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ( / ˈniːtʃə, ˈniːtʃi / NEE-chə, NEE-chee, [10] German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈniːtʃə] ⓘ or [ˈniːtsʃə]; [11] [12] 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the ...
3 days ago · The Moon and Sixpence is a wonderful book exploring what drives those of an artistic bent to ignore social niceties and public opinion to pursue what they perceive to be their calling. Taking us all the way to Tahiti, it lays bare the life of a man who, despite his misadventures and death, manages to live life on his own terms.
4 days ago · Keller zum Vergnügen, 192 S., 6,00 Euro. »An einem offenen Paradiesgärtlein geht der Mensch gleichgültig vorbei und wird erst traurig, wenn es verschlossen ist.« Gottfried Keller hatte ein Auge für das Feine, Kleine, Unscheinbare und ha
5 days ago · Abstract. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview linking the sense of smell to the field of emotion. The authors focus on the evolution of the olfactory system and its anatomical pathways, including overlapping structures with emotional processing circuits. The chapter proceeds with a detailed analysis of the functional relationship ...
