The ‘Other’ Bicentennial?

Perhaps it was just a shortcoming in my reading habits, but I found it interesting that The New York Times was already revving itself up for the bicentennial of the birth of Frédéric Chopin on January 2, while the first notice that Chopin shared...

San Francisco Remembers Elisabeth Söderström

San Francisco Remembers Elisabeth Söderström Today’s New York Times ran Anthony Tommasini’s obituary for the Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström, who died on Friday in Stockholm at the age of 82. Tommasini cited the Marschallin in...

Putting an Archive to Good Use

People in the information technology business have long sustained the joke that compares their stock-in-trade to that of the world’s oldest profession: No matter how many times to sell it, you still have it to sell again. Perhaps if the well...