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A Triumphant Solo Trip and Our Weekly Top 5
“Milan raised me to believe I could do and be anything. To have had that and to have lost it might be worse than never having had it at all.” Welcome to the weekend, friends! To kickstart your reading, let Kristina Kasparian’s fierce new essay whisk you away to Italy. In “Flying Solo,” she returns […]
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Just How Important Is Eye Contact Between Musicians? And What Does It Signal?
If you’re in the orchestra and the conductor give you “the look,” what does it mean? What does it mean when the musicians won’t make eye contact with the conductor? Ariane Todes investigates, in this piece at Classical Music. Eye contact between musicians isn’t a necessary condition for great music. Conductors have other means to […]
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A lifelong labor of love, Nigerian “Yahoo Boys,” and the week’s top 5
“Over the course of 33 years, Gittins painstakingly transformed almost every surface of this flat with a series of artworks in a variety of styles and mediums, from friezes on the walls of his living room to a Roman altar in his kitchen and enormous, ambitious fireplaces (yes, multiple).” Hello and welcome to the Top […]
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Three Strings: Past, Present, and Future
Finding beauty, human connection, and one’s heritage in the resonant sounds of the dulcimer.
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Momo’s Deadline
Linda Button on her toughest writing assignment yet: her business partner’s epitaph.
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The Sabbath Stew
What started as a loophole has remained one of Judaism’s most evocative, redolent foods.
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‘This Stuff is Alive’: A Global Folk Music Reading List
Six pieces that demonstrate the timelessness of ever-changing sonic traditions.
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But Who Tells Them What To Sing?
“And thus another Hollywood tradition was born: film choruses belting out perfectly nonsensical prose with utter conviction.”
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Best of 2022: All of our No. 5 Story Picks
All the stories we’ve selected as number five in our weekly Top 5 newsletter.
