14.3.04

A Clown Fish Is a Clown Fish Is a Clown Fish

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I wrote here about a French comic book author's lawsuit against Disney and Pixar, alleging that Disney plagiarized the characters and st...
13.3.04

More Fun in Lille

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As I reported here (see post on December 7 ), the French city of Lille was named this year's "European Capital of Culture." T...
12.3.04

Marcy Rosen & Co. at the Library of Congress (The Bat Strikes Again)

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With much anticipation did I await the concert at the Library of Congress on Friday, March 5. The Mendelssohn String Quartet was billed ...
11.3.04

Springtime Is for Poets: A Modest Proposal

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I have mentioned this quintessentially French event before, in relation to the celebrations for the Year of George Sand (see post on Februa...
10.3.04

Once Every Four Years

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On February 29th, the National Gallery of Art hosted a concert (the 2487th in their Sunday series ) of a quality that is rarer even than t...
9.3.04

Saving Hector Guimard

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This is something I meant to write about when I first saw this article ( L'héritage négligé d'Hector Guimard [The neglected heritag...
8.3.04

The Agony of Recording

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Since I have been singing in the Choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception , we have made two recordings: I ...
7.3.04

Beethoven Boyled Down

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On Monday, January 26th, an ambitious program of music was to be presented at the German Embassy as part of the Monday concert series of th...