{"id":11,"date":"2004-06-15T09:48:15","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T13:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/2004\/06\/15\/anno-anna\/"},"modified":"2011-11-26T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T03:16:09","slug":"anno-anna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/2004\/06\/15\/anno-anna\/","title":{"rendered":"Anno Anna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"a13\" name=\"a13\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few very recent, admissibly notable events:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/06\/07\/books\/07OPRA.html\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Anna Karenina<\/em> bolts to No. 1 in bestselling paperback fiction<\/strong><\/a>.  On her May 27 show, still days before the official announcement, Oprah whispered a few hints to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/tows\/pastshows\/200405\/tows_past_20040527.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">guest Sharon Stone<\/a> about her next Book Club selection.  For any alert lit-critter, Stone&#8217;s remarks in response were a dead giveaway: a timeless story, a long novel that isn&#8217;t as intimidating as it seems, about a woman of yore, her passions, her <i>todestrieb<\/i>.  This is an event impervious to high-brow snickering: for better if also for (i.e., symptomatic of) worse, Oprah will have done more for this classic than many a literature professor.  Just think: across the beaches of North America thousands of women will be reading Tolstoy for the first time!  Will there ever have been more copies of a single novel open at the same time under the sun?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgbh.org\" target=\"_blank\">WGBH Boston<\/a> seems clued in: this weekend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/schedules\/program-info?program_id=30209&amp;episode_id=345609\" target=\"_blank\">it begins re-airing<\/a> the 2000 UK\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/masterpiece\/anna\/\" target=\"_blank\">Masterpiece Theatre adaptation<\/a>, starring Helen McCrory (Anna), Kevin McKidd (Vronsky), Douglas Henshall (Levin), Amanda Root (Dolly; excellent as Anne in <i>Persuasion<\/i>), and Paul Rhys (Nikolai; excellent in <i>Gallowglass<\/i>).  Ophah&#8217;s Book Club proceedings can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/books\/books_landing.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whrb.org\/pg\/MayJun2004.html\" target=\"_blank\">Listening to Furt<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whrb.org\/pg\/MayJun2004.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>w\u00e4<\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whrb.org\/pg\/MayJun2004.html\" target=\"_blank\">ngler<\/a><\/strong> again and more, thanks to the wonderful Wilhelm Furtw\u00e4ngler Orgy on wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whrb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WHRB<\/a>.  What other conductor, apart from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicandarts.com\/CD4028hc.html\" target=\"_blank\">Knappertsbusch<\/a>, can make Bruckner&#8217;s plodding transitions sound so convincing, inevitable even?  The EMI remastered 1952 <em>Tristan &amp; Isolde<\/em> is a fulgent force of nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few very recent, admissibly notable events: Anna Karenina bolts to No. 1 in bestselling paperback fiction. On her May 27 show, still days before the official announcement, Oprah whispered a few hints to guest Sharon Stone about her next Book Club selection. For any alert lit-critter, Stone&#8217;s remarks in response were a dead giveaway: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355,1825,4537,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambridge","category-literature","category-love","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}