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Arcadia, variations on a theme

Saturday, March 5th, 2011

How a sublime concert by the Sinfonia New York put me in mind of Nicolas Poussin’s great painting, Et in Arcadia ego.

Can artifice be truthful? (My Kraftwerk interlude)

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

I’m listening to a couple of Kraftwerk CDs that my son requested for his birthday: Die Menschmaschine and Trans Europa Express. There are a number of good links on Youtube for those who need a Kraftwerk refresher: Die Roboter (ignore the intro) and Das Modell, for example. When both Kraftwerk and I were younger and […]

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