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Dreams and Nightmares
Among twentieth century virtuoso violin concertos in the standard repertoire, none are more prized than Violin Concerto in D minor by Sibelius (1904) and Violin Concerto in D major by Prokofiev (1917). The Bard Conservatory Orchestra, composed of teachers and students, last Saturday featured Shmuel...
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BRING TERM LIMITS TO THE FLOOR
I don’t get angry easily, but right now I am outraged. It’s time for those who hold the reins of power in Albany to be taken to task for the culture of corruption they have allowed to fester over the last decade.  
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Countrymen and the countryside
One of the recurring themes of these editorials has been recognition of the countryside and the role it plays in our lives.  For many, the countryside is simply the background to our lives, the hills and fields that surround us.  For others, it is where we work; it is the source of our...
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Mind-Monkey at Play
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale. Twelve. 2012.  
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The Automobile Snob
Everybody knows an auto snob. There’s always some guy down the block or two blocks away who has a Sunday Corvette stashed in his garage, or the weekend lady who drives her antique Duesenberg Roadster, the “ultimate car,” with the top down in spring as flowering hyacinth whips by her reddening ears...
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The Sandwhich Snob
The sandwich snob is all around us, invading the most delightful conversations with the braggadocio of trivial snobbery. This fault is particularly acute with truck drivers and construction workers, but you find it among lawyers and news reporters as well as anybody in any occupation. The sandwich...
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The Likety-Split Snob
Everywhere people are hurrying: to their cars in the parking lot, to an ex-spouse to pick up their child, to the supermarket to scoop up milk, onion, and butter before supper, to their jobs because they overslept. Some of these people, many of them (I’m sorry to inform you), are lickety-split snobs...
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The Fixed Stars
The Fixed Stars supports its ironic title with a narrative of bewildering flux. Stars only appear fixed to us because of the transiency of our lives. The setting for this peculiar novel is a post-apocalyptic world. The technique is episodic fable. World-wide capitalism collapsed as a...
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Smithfield Concert: A Meditation on Love
Kent Tritle led off the concert at Smithfield Presbyterian Church on September 15 with Bach’s Concerto in A minor, which Bach based on Vivaldi’s orchestral presentation. As with many of Vivaldi’s pieces, it followed a three-part trajectory: a happy Allegro, melancholy adagio, then joyful allegro....
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When students shine as stars
Young people don’t usually have a chance to perform at great theaters or in state-of-the-art concert halls, yet at Bard College, students perform regularly at Sosnoff concert hall. The Bard Conservatory Program on Sunday afternoons permits just that—students work together with a great conductor,...
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