Robert Graves, born in England in 1895, enlisted as a second lieutenant in August 1914, rising to the rank of captain by October 1915. He was badly wounded at the Battle of the Somme (July […]
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  1. Robert Graves, “Good-bye to All That (1929, 1957)
  2. From Beethoven to Taylor Swift: How to Earn a Living Making Music?
  3. Bebop, 1945
  4. Plus ça change . . . (Nostradamus edition)
  5. Go pound sand, Ezra (wisdom comes, but too late)
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Robert Graves, “Good-bye to All That (1929, 1957)

Robert Graves, born in England in 1895, enlisted as a second lieutenant in August 1914, rising to the rank of captain by October 1915. He was badly wounded at the Battle of the Somme (July […]
   

From Beethoven to Taylor Swift: How to Earn a Living Making Music?

The Life of Beethoven (1998), by David Wyn Jones, revived for me an old question about how we pay for art, and the consequences of that choice. Consider the words of Christian Gottlob Neefe, Beethoven’s […]
   

Bebop, 1945

The height of West’s drum throne is remarkable, as is the setup of the drum kit, which resembles an early New Orleans style: snare drum low and strongly tilted, big bass drum, rack tom on […]
   

Plus ça change . . . (Nostradamus edition)

1789: Among all the possible causes for the French Revolution that historians have proposed over the past two centuries, three stand out. First, the financial irresponsibility of Louis XVI severely limited his options when the […]
   

Go pound sand, Ezra (wisdom comes, but too late)

A cautionary tale for those who so willingly proclaim the latest discoveries of the literary promoters to be masterpieces. In Humphrey Carpenter’s 900-page biography of Ezra Pound, A Serious Character: the life of Ezra Pound, […]
   

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