Listening to Music in the Desert at Dawn
For a series of conversations about music with nonmusicians, I am swapping songs: exchanging pieces with my interlocutors to spark ideas about how their areas...
Triangulating Math, Mozart and ‘Moby-Dick’
She also discusses “The Luminaries,” by Eleanor Catton, winner of the 2013 Booker Prize. Every year, Dr. Hart and a friend speed-read the shortlist. That...
A ‘Messiah’ for the Multitudes, Freed From History’s Bonds
A gay Chinese-Canadian tenor struts through the streets of Vancouver, joyously proclaiming that “ev’ry valley shall be exalted” as the camera focuses in on his...