Writer Amor Towles finds inspiration in a visit to one of his favourite places in The Met, the magical Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio.
This is a little cubbyhole in a corner of the Met Museum that I’d never heard of until I watched this fascinating short video.
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The virtuoso clarinettist Michel Arrignon, a co-founder of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, died today in La Rochelle at the age of 76. Arrignon was principal clarinet of the Paris Opera Orchestra, founder of the Olivier Messiaen […]
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