The Faust Bargain
Greetings! Well, our topic this week is Faust…Yikes, there’s sooooo many possible musical choices – I can only scratch the surface with this playlist! There’s probably no other single story/myth/legend that has inspired more artistic reactions; from plays, to concert music, to art song, to opera, to Broadway musicals,...
All Things Whitman
I’ve been thinking of Walt Whitman lately…actually, I almost always think of Whitman around Easter – usually due to the connection with his great Lincoln elegy ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’. It always evokes Spring and Easter for me, given that the elegy is describing the poet’s...