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Music, Theatre & Art Reflections

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  • 7
    Nov

    2022

    Performing Haitian Revolution

    The Haitian Revolution, which began with slave uprisings in the French colony of Saint Domingue in 1791 and resulted in the 1804 declaration of Haitian independence, was a major part of the Age of Revolutions. ...

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  • 25
    Nov

    2021

    A History of Polish Theatre

    A History of Polish Theatre offers a new and original look at the complex pasts of Polish theatre. The editors wished to move away from strictly devised forms of periodization, and instead build historical...

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  • 22
    Jul

    2020

    Loneliness, Helping Hands, TRUTH: One hundred...

    Until December 2019, I was in Nanjing, some five hundred kilometres from Wuhan where the first cases of the new lung disease were then discovered. When things unfolded in January, I initially felt a sense...

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  • 13
    May

    2020

    Songs for a Sad Season

    Singer-songwriter John Prine fell ill with the Covid-19 virus in March and eventually succumbed to it on April 7. He was a balladeer of the common man, a poet of everyday life with a knack for folding...

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  • 11
    May

    2020

    Mozart, Epidemics and Hope

    I have always been fascinated by the imposing Pestsäule (Plague Column) in Vienna, erected by Emperor Leopold I soon after the plague epidemic of 1679 that killed as many as 75,000 people. Situated on...

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  • 11
    May

    2020

    In Light of Cancelled Creation, Haydn at Home

    “Bombardment of Vienna on the night of the 12th of May [1809],” from the collections of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San José State University....

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