The five extracts I previously suggested all come from different genres and periods, ranging from Handel in the early eighteenth-century to Wagner at the end of the nineteenth. Not only that, but where Mozart is a product of the Enlightenment, Verdi is suffused with the spirit of Italian Romanticism.
Read MoreOpera is such a hugely varied art form, especially now that the boundaries of the repertoire have been opened up to include works of every period, style, and nationality. But given this huge variety, where do you begin – or what direction do you take to explore further?
Read MoreHead to the Wisbech and Fenland Museum in Wisbech, England, and you can see the original autograph manuscript for Great Expectations, often considered one of Charles Dickens’ finest works. A gift from Dickens to his friend Chauncey Hare Townsend, the manuscript is an amazing window into Dickens’ brain, with clues to his creative process and […]
Read MoreIn bonus footage from our behind the scenes look at The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume I, editor Sandra Spanier interviews Hemingway’s son Patrick on the portrait of his iconic father that emerges in this new collection of correspondence.
Read MoreHemingway’s home outside Havana, the Finca Vigía, turned into a shrine and museum shortly after the writer’s death, and all of Hemingway’s documents there were turned over to the Republic of Cuba.
Read MoreThink you know all about Hemingway? Find out with our Hemingway crossword puzzle! From the poet who supplied the title of his longest novel, to the son that helped with the creation of his collected letters, this puzzle will test your knowledge of Papa and his correspondence.
Read MoreIn this video, Dr. Sarah B. Snyder, author of Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War talks with Ambassador Richard Schifter, former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, and National Security Archive Research Fellow Svetlana Savranskaya about the role of human rights activism in the end of the […]
Read MoreIn the first video for Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust, we watched co-author Rebecca Boehling as she sat down with Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg, whose discovery of her mother’s wartime letters inspired the book. We finish the video series with two more videos that provide an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of […]
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