Music’s restless avant garde: Still a ‘wonderful adventure’
/Many composers and musicians believe we are in a golden age of experimental creativity in composition. So why does the general concert-going public hate the results?
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Many composers and musicians believe we are in a golden age of experimental creativity in composition. So why does the general concert-going public hate the results?
Read MoreJohn Nance Garner famously referred to the vice presidency as being not worth a bucket of warm, er, spit - and yet, during the two terms of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney used that office to wield unprecedented power. The former vice president writes an unapologetic memoir.
Read MoreBoston, so often reproved for living in its memories, may well be poised to lead the future, not in spite of its history but because of it.
Read MorePatrick Henry uttered one of the most famous lines in American history, and a new biography attempts to claim him for a particular radical strain of popularism in contemporary politics. Give me liberty or give me... historical distortion?
Read MoreFor two centuries, he's been the founding myth of his nation: first in war, first in peace, Washington the paragon. Ron Chernow's new biography does nothing to tarnish that image -- but should it?
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