Nurit Siegal is a scholar on modern antisemitism based in Chicago, Illinois.
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Ever since leaving office in January 2009, President George Walker Bush has kept out of the limelight by mostly refraining from publicly commenting on politics or current affairs.
On screen, Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) is not only the alfa-male – who courts and ultimately wins over the beautiful woman – but he has also come to represent the Great American of the twentieth century.
A leading authority on performance practice and performance history, Professor Ryamond Holden AM is the author of The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition from Wagner to Karajan for Yale University Press, among other books. Part II examines Herbert von Karajan’s recording career.
In a world that has become increasingly bland and diffuse culturally, Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989) should act as a beacon of hope for all those aspiring to artistic excellence.
Fiona Maddocks is one of Britain’s foremost classical music critics. We discuss her new book; Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile (Faber, 2023).
Helmut Kohl’s lasting legacy rests on the fact that he’s considered across Germany’s political spectrum to be a great visionary for Europe.
In the third part of our wide-ranging interview with Professor Raymond Holden AM, we discuss Richard Strauss’ (1864–1949) relationship with Nazi-Germany, his collaboration with the distinguished Austrian playwright and biographer, Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), and his Jewish family members.
In the second part of our wide-ranging interview with Professor Raymond Holden AM, we discuss Richard Strauss’s historical legacy as the last preeminent composer-conductor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) is widely considered to be the last of the great composers who also influenced generations of younger conductors. One of them, Professor Raymond Holden of the Royal Academy of Music, discusses the composer’s life and legacy in a wide-raging interview.