A. C. Douglas
The gentleman who went by A. C. Douglas on the net had a wonderful blog, Sounds & Fury. The site – the & in its title replaced with and – is now operated by an opera lover who is obviously…
Winterings in Trans-Scythia
Fragments of a blog
Winterings in Trans-Scythia
Fragments of a blog
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The fabulous Bayreuth production of *The Communist Manifesto*
After I had quoted A.C.Douglas on the best Ring for the beginner at a Russian music forum, I got this in a comment among others: I’ve just seen Das Rheingold from the mentioned [DVD] set [Boulez–Chéreau 1976 Bayreuth Ring] and…
That poor, utterly useless Mozart
Many thanks to A.C. Douglas for spotting an inimitable entry by art critic Kyle Gann. Alas, my comments would add no value to the pure hilarity of the latter’s rhetoric, like this: Is there something about living in the age…
Yes, it is an argument about tastes after all
A.C. Douglas thunders against the “genteel pap” style of art critism, quoting an old post by Michael Blowhard as an example of the wrong approach. This reminds me of the time, about ten years ago, when I tried to figure…
[Quasi-musical trivia]
From time to time, I come back to this old post by A.C. Douglas on the Dresden Tannhäuser overture. I have discovered since that Albert Coates, some time in the 1920s, took (almost) exactly the 12 minutes that, as A.C.…