Exaudi is a choral group founded by James Weeks and Juliet Fraser ten years ago to perform the choral compositions of contemporary composers. It’s been a lively and successful ten years, so to celebrate, they had their tenth anniversary concert this evening at Wigmore Hall, and what an evening it was. They concentrate on contemporary […]
Unsolicited musical review: Exaudi at Wigmore Hall
by wufnik on October 21, 2012 in Arts & Literature, Music & Popular Culture
Sen. George McGovern, 1922-2012: a liberal sorely missed
by Dr. Denny on October 21, 2012 in American Culture, Freedom & Privacy, Politics, Law & Government, United States, War & Security
I voted for George McGovern. After his astonishingly lopsided defeat at hands of Richard “I am not a crook” Nixon in 1972, I got the bumper sticker, too: Don’t blame me. I’m from Massachusetts. Two years later, Nixon waved goodbye to his corrupted presidency from the open door of a plane, a man ironically liberal […]
ArtSunday: Are we seeing more character development in genre fiction?
by Samuel Smith on October 21, 2012 in Arts & Literature, ArtSunday
Not long ago a good friend asked me if I’d take a look at this novel he was working on. He felt it was one of the best things he’d written, but was getting no bites from publishers. He was committed to making it work, and he wondered if I had ideas about what might […]

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