Thanksgiving
November 25, 2010
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart
Onegin (the films)
November 24, 2010
English and Russian
Onegin at Dicapo Opera 2011
November 24, 2010
Tchaikovsky's music, Pushkin's poetry at Dicapo in April 2011:
http://www.dicapo.com/html/onegin.html
The Met's DVD with Fleming:
Twain at the Morgan
November 24, 2010
See the Twain at the Morgan Library exhibit before it closes January 2nd. The exhibit includes some original pages of Huck Finn.
On translating Pushkin
November 23, 2010
A great site on the challenge of translating Pushkin:
http://www.textetc.com/workshop/wt-pushkin-1.html
Twain bio book via NY Times
November 19, 2010
Twain's autobiography is selling well: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/20/books/20twain.html
Kalmykian music
November 18, 2010
Find the reference to "Kalmuk" in Pushkin's Onegin, then listen to Edjin duun performed by Okna Tsahan Zam via Grooveshark: