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James Panero on American architectural style Nov 20, 2019

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James Panero discusses the architectural virtues and vices of the American home, and culls a few examples of past styles from the city of Portland, Maine.

Music for a While #13: Rustles, Hisses, and Slogs Nov 15, 2019

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Jay ends with “Rustle of Spring,” the piano piece by Christian Sinding. It used to be universally known. It deserved to be. Jay also plays Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Shostakovich, Amy Beach, Havergal Brian, and Jörg Widmann. He tells some stories, makes some points. A rich and diverse world, music. Tracks played: Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1 Brian, Double Fugue in E flat Widmann, “Con brio” Brahms, Violin Concerto Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5 (Bernstein, New York Philharmonic) Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5 (Maazel, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) Beach, “Ah, Love, but a Day” Sinding, “Rustle of Spring”

James Panero on Turner’s watercolors Nov 12, 2019

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James Panero recounts a recent trip to Mystic, Connecticut, and offers his thoughts on “J. M. W. Turner: Watercolors from Tate” and other developments at the Mystic Seaport Museum.

Roger Kimball introduces the November 2019 issue of The New Criterion Nov 07, 2019

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Roger Kimball, the Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion, discusses highlights in this month’s issue and reads from its opening pages.

Music for a While #12: Holy stuff (and other stuff) Oct 29, 2019

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When Harriet Cohen finishes playing her arrangement of Bach’s “Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier,” Jay says, “Holy stuff.” There is other stuff too in this episode: including “Tain’t What You Do (It’s How You Do It).” There may also be a little Beach Boys, classically performed. Jay likes that opening Bach piece so much, he ends with it, too: in a different version. Bach-Cohen, “Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier” Gluck, “Che farò senza Euridice?” Oliver and Young, “Tain’t What You Do (It’s How You Do It)” Feinberg, Piano Sonata No. 3 Bernstein, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Wilson and Love, “Good Vibrations” (sung by the King’s Singers) Grieg-Ginzburg, “In the Hall of the Mountain King” Bach–Swingle Singers, “Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier”

Annette Kirk, James Panero & Roger Kimball on the literary legacy of Russell Kirk Oct 25, 2019

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Remarks occasioned by Criterion Books’ republication of Russell Kirk’s “Old House of Fear,” with a new introduction by James Panero. https://newcriterion.com/bookstore?mode=criterion

“Leninthink” by Gary Saul Morson Oct 15, 2019

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Gary Saul Morson, the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University, delivers the inaugural Circle Lecture on the pernicious legacy of Vladimir Lenin.

Music for a While #11: Immortality Oct 15, 2019

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Someone asked Jay to name one composer whose music he would take with him to a desert island. He names him (Bach). He also says farewell to Marcello Giordani, the Italian tenor, and Jessye Norman, the American soprano. We also get an opera overture, a Beethoven overture, some Gershwin—and “Take This Job and Shove It.” Quite a menu, quite a program. Tracks played: Bach, Prelude in C major, Book I, “The Well-Tempered Clavier” Chopin, Etude in C major, Op. 10, No. 1 Nicolai, Overture to “The Merry Wives of Windsor” Gershwin, “I Loves You, Porgy” from “Porgy and Bess” Beethoven, Triple Concerto Coe, David Allan, “Take This Job and Shove It” Betta, Marco, “Amuri mancatu” Trad., “Give Me Jesus”

Gary Saul Morson & James Panero discuss “Leninthink” Oct 07, 2019

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Gary Saul Morson, the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University and the author of “Leninthink,” joins James Panero to discuss the pernicious legacy of Vladimir Lenin.

Roger Kimball introduces the October 2019 issue of The New Criterion Oct 02, 2019

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Roger Kimball, the Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion, discusses highlights in this month’s issue and reads from its opening pages.