Why Music Makes Our Brain Sing - The New York Times

Why Music Makes Our Brain Sing - The New York Times: " You can’t eat it, drink it or mate with it. "

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'Didn’t Slam Anti-Semitism On the Left? Don’t Expect Credibility When You Slam It On the Right. - Opinion – Forward.com

Didn’t Slam Anti-Semitism On the Left? Don’t Expect Credibility When You Slam It On the Right. - Opinion – Forward.com: "met with steel"

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Torah finials made by New York silversmith Myer Myers for the Touro Synagogue in Newport approx. 1766.

Single shell on the Charles

Music from Händel, Purcell, and Hayden - Music in honor of St. Cecilia Musiques pour Sainte Cécile | Marc Minkowski

Handel, From Harmony to heavenly harmony The Red Herring baroque ensemble, The New Baroque Times Voices(Ode for Saint-Cecilia's day)

Today is St. Cecilia's Day - let us begin with a Te Deum - Charpentier Te Deum Les Arts Florissants William Christie

Clownfish and anemones at play - The Mystic Aquarium

La Clemenza di Tito: "Deh, per questo istante solo" -- Elīna Garanča "Remember, just for this one moment, how you once loved me"

The Donald Trump Inauguration - Gounod: Faust - "Le veau d'or" Ruggero Raimondi

Leonard Cohen entertaining the troops during the 1973 Yom Kippur War - Rest In Peace

Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire (Live 1988) Rest in Peace

Leonard Cohen recites “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae | Legion Magazine

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings "An die Musik" by Schubert, accompanied by pianist Gerald Moore - shameless escapism from these times...

A little mood music for the Trump Victory - Siegfried Funeral Music - Götterdämmerung - Solti - VPO

A chat with Kaija Saariaho, the composer of L'Amour de Loin, with Peter Gelb, the Director Robert Lepage, and the Conductor Susanna Mäkki.

Tamara Mumford sings the Pilgrim's aria from Act 1, of L'Amour de Loin, acc. on piano by Dimitri Dover.

Clémence's aria from L'Amour de Loin. Susanna Phillips, with Musicians from the Mannes School of Music, Jacob Bass, Cond.

Apollo's Fire - Concert at the Library of Congress, with Amanda Forsythe, Soprano

Apollo's Fire - YouTube:



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Consider a Monarchy, America Nikolai Tolstoy - The New York Times

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The memorial for the fallen officer - The Helmsley Building Park Avenue New York

The Art of the Rout: What a Trump Loss Does to the G.O.P. - The New Yorker

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La Clemenza di Tito: "Deh, per questo istante solo" -- Elīna Garanča