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- A use for the useless by This Blog Will Change the World on Sep 30, 2009
Over at Mind the Gap, Molly Sheridan draws our attention to a recent Harper's essay on the neglect of the humanities in the modern education system. I see your eyes rolling already, but this essay is far superior to your average jeremiad, mostly beca...
- The medium, or the message? by This Blog Will Change the World on Aug 28, 2009
Someone has decided to post the entire works of Shakespeare on Twitter, at ten-minute intervals. The feed can be followed here. I can't claim to understand why anyone would embark on such a project, or why it has attracted over 850 followers to date.
- Congratulations by This Blog Will Change the World on Jun 15, 2009
The Queen's birthday honours list this year includes the superb pianist Mitsuko Uchida (h/t Alex Ross), as well as two noteworthy organists and church musicians: concert organist Simon Preston, formerly of Westminster Abbey, and the redoubtable Steph...
- Panicking presbyters by This Blog Will Change the World on May 27, 2009
Another year, another pandemic. Remember SARS?The outbreak of H1N1 influenza, or whatever it's called, is another example of how easily an epidemiological curiosity can be manipulated to create widespread panic. And, sadly, people are once again doin...
- Urgent! Urgent! by This Blog Will Change the World on Apr 20, 2009
You can't read Adorno without coming across, on every other page, the word "reify", which, as everyone knows, refers to the mental act of giving a concrete form to something abstract. Anyone who's had Latin, moreover, should recognize the derivation...
- Advice to young readers by This Blog Will Change the World on Apr 18, 2009
Although the experience of moving directly from The Imitation of Christ to a volume of essays by Adorno may seem interesting, I do not recommend it.
- Mozart@254 by This Blog Will Change the World on Feb 8, 2009
I give up.(for an explanation, see here.)And, on Anglican Music, an extremely pertinent quotation from Eliot's Four Quartets.
