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Brown Study: What makes a classical music fan?
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Books, music, and the things that make the world a better place. Sunday, December 28, 2014. What makes a classical music fan? Austin's Mother Falcon at Zanzabar. Now that I'm writing about music on a fairly regular basis as a freelancer, I spend a lot of time thinking. About music. One question I've been noodling is what makes me a fan of the opera and orchestra at a time when dwindling audiences and revenues for both seem to be the norm in many places? How do people become classical music fans? One thin...
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Brown Study: July 2014
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Books, music, and the things that make the world a better place. Tuesday, July 15, 2014. Summer reading: Road trips and Americana. It's hard to believe that we are this deep into summer already. The kiddos will be back to school next month, football season will start, and this vague thing we call "summer reading" will be over. I'm not sure that I've found my quintessential book of the season. I read Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Much more to my taste was Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch. I was led to ...
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Brown Study: May 2015
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Books, music, and the things that make the world a better place. Monday, May 25, 2015. The Art of Recommending Books. Of course, you have to be careful. Not everyone is going to appreciate the necrophiliac protagonist of an early Cormac McCarthy novel. If you were to even start telling someone about the plot of Child of God. I was finally ready for it. Which is why I re-read it not too long ago - because for crying out loud, it's F. Scott Fitzgerald. Yeah, I still hate it. I hate all those ch...And so fe...
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Brown Study: The Art of Recommending Books
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Books, music, and the things that make the world a better place. Monday, May 25, 2015. The Art of Recommending Books. Of course, you have to be careful. Not everyone is going to appreciate the necrophiliac protagonist of an early Cormac McCarthy novel. If you were to even start telling someone about the plot of Child of God. I was finally ready for it. Which is why I re-read it not too long ago - because for crying out loud, it's F. Scott Fitzgerald. Yeah, I still hate it. I hate all those ch...And so fe...
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Brown Study: April 2015
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Books, music, and the things that make the world a better place. Monday, April 06, 2015. I finished up my project to read all of Shakespeare by his birthday this month. I ended with Pericles. And of Winter's Tale. For the sheer implausibility of the plot. Another of the last ones on my list was The Merry Wives of Windsor. What I learned from reading through Shakespeare was how entertaining the history plays are. I had never read King John. Or any of the Henry VI. Illiers-Combray" by Oxxo - Own work.
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Brown Study: December 2014
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Books, music, and the things that make the world a better place. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. The year of the book backlog. I realized as I looked back over this year's reading that I hadn't read a single book that actually came out in 2014. I'm so far behind that I haven't yet got to Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch. Which I had intended to read as soon as it came out. Ditto for the incomparable Marilynne Robinson's Lila. Here is just how dawdling I am: I finally read A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book. Lewis...
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Brown Study: Fourth of July Creek
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Books, music, and the things that make the world a better place. Sunday, February 01, 2015. Fourth of July Creek. I started off the new year right with my first book pick. I had read some pretty glowing reviews of Smith Henderson's debut novel, Fourth of July Creek. Henderson has an uncanny knack for capturing a character's inner voice, both adults and children, and his dialogue rips right along, natural and succinct. There are moments of humor and quiet beauty among the many dark corners of this nov...
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Brown Study: February 2015
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Books, music, and the things that make the world a better place. Sunday, February 08, 2015. I've been embarked on a reading project of Shakespeare since about September, when I decided to read back through all the plays, and catch what I had never read. The history plays have been fascinating. Right now, I'm through Part 1 and still reading Part 2 of King Henry VI. In Part 1, Joan of Arc gets totally trashed. In Part 2, all the gears are in motion for the War of the Roses. And tugg'd for life and was by ...
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Brown Study: January 2014
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Books, music, and the things that make the world a better place. Saturday, January 25, 2014. This is the only novel I've read by Brooks (she won the Pulitzer for People of the Book. And she is a fine writer. This happens all the time (perhaps more frequently) in other mediums. Television is rife with them: Lost. Need I say more? Ditto, Twin Peaks. I can't count Deadwood. Because they didn't get a chance to wrap it up before cancellation (for shame, HBO! On the other hand, I thought Breaking Bad. The fore...
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Brown Study: June 2014
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Books, music, and the things that make the world a better place. Friday, June 13, 2014. Montana and Yellowstone (A tour of the West). You get to wondering what it is that makes them tick. So I wanted to see my father's Montana, and this is where we depart from any travel route you're likely to take. And for its rich dinosaur fossil fields. But the point is, I was finally. Little Bighorn Battlefield looking uphill where Custer made his last stand. The Oregon Trail,. All the Indians this Bostonian meets in...
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