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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A member of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, Sarah Vonsattel believes in the unifying power of music on the most divisive day in recent American history. She’s hoping to soften the hearts of voting citizens. The […]
From the general manager’s self-admiring Sunday sermon in the pushover NY Times: … I arrived at the Met in 2006 with plans to re-energize its audience engagement through new productions of the classics and new […]
The death has been announced, aged 94, of the venerable Burton Fine, principal viola for 29 years of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He started out as a research chemist with the space agency NASA. […]
