Vivek Dehejia Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Vivek Dehejia

Good Friday listening: Bach's St. Matthew Passion, live from Helsinki. Stream in progress now, and available for catch-up. A blessed Easter to all friends celebrating. https://t.co/4ogaGLul82

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Fittingly, spending this very hot day, a heat emergency day, safely indoors. Reading Oscar Wilde's "Salomé" in French hasn't lowered the temperature, though. The original, even more than the Strauss libretto, is so hot, it ought to be printed on asbestos (with apologies to PGW). https://t.co/T0sIxemMPy

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And .... cued up next, last Thursday's "Salome" from the Vienna State Opera, which I saw on Saturday. Available for catch up only for another day or less. Mozart, Mahler, and Richard Strauss in Vienna -- the one, two, three punch! https://t.co/bikdTgd5sP

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Recently watched "The Human Factor" (1979) by Otto Preminger, with a screenplay by Tom Stoppard based on the novel by Graham Greene, inspired by the Kim Philby affair. Superb cast includes Nicol Williamson, Richard Attenborough, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Iman....worth watching! https://t.co/RBKi9Cn44l

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I've long wanted to read the original French text of Oscar Wilde's "Salomé" and compare it to the Hedwig Lachmann translation (which we know, in abridged form, from the Strauss opera) and the (controversial) Lord Alfred Douglas translation. So, let's start with the French! https://t.co/zMB7n4xPJA

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@mikeirons12 With this criterion, it's an easy one, Mike -- 10 operas by Richard Strauss written after 1900, starting with "Salome" and finishing with "Capriccio"! 😊

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@RMRoss_ For me, it was Bernstein's "The Joy of Music" and Aaron Copland's "What to listen for in Music". The first was my own pick (I already knew LB from his PBS broadcasts) and the second was my history teacher's recommendation.

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Bernard Haitink is dead at the age of 92. "Proper" encomia remain to be written. For me, personally, my lasting memory is of Haitink at @RoyalOperaHouse unfolding the mysteries of Mozart's "Don Giovanni", with Sir Thomas Allen in the title role, one petal at a time. RIP, Bernard. https://t.co/cl9t4hzADv

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Fittingly, spending this very hot day, a heat emergency day, safely indoors. Reading Oscar Wilde's "Salomé" in French hasn't lowered the temperature, though. The original, even more than the Strauss libretto, is so hot, it ought to be printed on asbestos (with apologies to PGW). https://t.co/T0sIxemMPy

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I remember Phil as a bright new assistant professor @columbia_econ when I was a grad student! || Academic economist Philip Jefferson, who is a nominee for the Federal Reserve board, has focused his work on monetary policy, poverty and inequality https://t.co/9uuCWUWCb0 via @WSJ

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