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Fern von hier Folgers mir nun
Fern von hier Folgers mir nun.
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The Ultimate Classical Music Gift Guide for the Terminally Online and Historically-Burdened
Because we've all read too much music theory to be merry.
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Dirtbag Winterreise
“more like suck-blick”
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The Ultimate Classical Music Gift Guide for the Terminally Online and Historically-Burdened
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Absolute Music Doesn't Exist
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Can We Please Stop Pretending that Music Is Going to Lift Us Above Anything, Let Alone the Current Global Political Landscape?
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Of Course Jeffrey Epstein Was a Beethoven Fan
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How Should a Critic Be?
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Dirtbag Dichterliebe
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Of Course Jeffrey Epstein Was a Beethoven Fan
The complicitous silence of cultural capital
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Music Unties
Classical musicians continue to insist that art has nothing to do with politics.
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Real Reactions
Borys Lyatoshynsky’s The Golden Crown in Lviv, selective solidarity everywhere else
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Killing Khovansky
1,041 words about the past that have absolutely nothing to do with the present (until they do)
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The Unsullied Face of Truth
A few scattered thoughts as I reconsider La clemenza di Tito
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Can We Please Stop Pretending that Music Is Going to Lift Us Above Anything, Let Alone the Current Global Political Landscape?
Can we please stop pretending that music is going to “lift us” above anything, let alone the current geopolitical situation?
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Throwing Light
Raymond Bisha, 1957-2025
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Two or Three (Other) Things I Know about Il Trovatore
Once again writing about Verdi and politics.
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9.5 Theses on Art and Politics
The ethics of pursuing classical music in a world on fire.
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