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Beauty as Solace
Evanston RoundTable, April 15, 2020 There is a remarkable YouTube video of the British composer Alma Deutscher telling a recent audience about a piece she has written. Ms. Deutscher is
The Upsides
Evanston RoundTable, April 2, 2020 It’s hard to imagine anything good coming from the Coronavirus. It’s a disaster of the first order, killing people by the thousands, shutting down the
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore or, I’ve Got Those Corona Virus Blues
Evanston RoundTable, March 20, 2020 (With a tip of the digital hat to lyricist Bob Russell, sung to the Duke Ellington tune “Never No Lament”) Used to roam around the town,
Stoner City: An Inside Look at Evanston’s Cannabis Dispensary
Outside everything seemed normal. Inside it was a strange new world. Evanston RoundTable, March 4, 2020 Sales of marijuana at the State’s dispensaries are blowing away expectations. According to the
Charles Johnson Returns to Evanston to Celebrate ‘Middle Passage’
Evanston RoundTable, March 5, 2020 Award-winning author Charles Johnson returned to Evanston, where he was born and grew up, to address an appreciative audience at Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center on Feb. 29
This I Know
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 23, 2020 At every stage of life, it is useful to step back and tote up the “important things,” the life lessons we think we’ve learned. Even
Shostakovich on Cuts to the Fourth Symphony: “Let Them Eat it All!”
DSCH Journal, January 2020 Letters to the Editor: As a first violinist in the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra from 1965 to 1973, Victor Yampolsky had the opportunity to see Dmitri Shostakovich
The Write Stuff
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 29, 2020 “Words, words, words. I’m so sick of words,” sang Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. That seems truer than ever these days. The world is
2020: The Year of Insight
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 15, 2020 Some of my friends are expecting 2020 to be a difficult year. One of them told me she believes it will be “apocalyptic.” Gosh, I