Stacey Morris
By Stacey Morris
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News ‘The Music is Filled With Colors’
By the time Hans Krása was 22, his composing career was already off to an auspicious start. In 1921, his “String Quartet” premiered in Paris to rave reviews that compared him with Schoenberg and Bartok. The Prague native had made his professional debut the year before, with “4 Orchesterlieder – Op. 1.” After that, Austrian…
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News Ghosts of Prinsengracht
There are some places so inherent in their power that they’re no longer places; they are living lessons. The realization came to me last summer, following a visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. I stood at the entrance of 267 Prinsengracht, waiting on line in the hot July sun as gangs of tourists…
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News Visiting Israel Without Getting ‘Left Behind’
Plenty of Bible-thumping, Armageddon-watching Christians visit Israel. I, however, was raised Presbyterian, that calm inner-sanctum of Christianity where the zealotry is mercifully tempered. Still, I dreamed my entire life of seeing the Holy Land, but I wasn’t interested in any fanatical “Left Behind” tours, where a humorless guide with a Carolinian accent points out where…
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