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3. Gyorgy Ligeti . My favorite piece is Lux Aeterna but that is best heard in concert, like a lot of choral music. On disc the horn trio works best. The Sony collection volumes are uniformly excellent and perhaps the piano music is the easiest place to start.
3. Gyorgy Ligeti . My favorite piece is Lux Aeterna but that is best heard in concert, like a lot of choral music. On disc the horn trio works best. The Sony collection volumes are uniformly excellent and perhaps the piano music is the easiest place to start.
1. Franz Liszt : The “late, serious” pieces are important but I don’t think they are much fun to listen to. I recommend the Transcendental Etudes, performance preferences here . “Funerailles,” played by the young Lazar Berman . “Years of Pilgrimage, the Swiss years,” by Aldo Ciccolini. The Hungarian Rhapsodies, played by Cziffa or Robert Szidon. Many of the opera transcriptions are subtler than they are made out to be, as creative examples of early mash-ups. The B Minor Sonata is a bit to...
2. Movies : Bela Tarr , Satantango . It’s over seven hours long, but don’t be put off. It has some of the best shots of grazing cows and angry peasants committed to reel, and I wanted it to be longer. It’s mesmerizing in a way that makes it one of the film classics of the new century. I find Werckmeister Harmonies too corny but it has some fine scenes. Less traditionally thought of as Hungarian is the great Emeric Pressburger , who collaborated with Michael Powell on numerous fine films. Al...
2. Movies : Bela Tarr , Satantango . It’s over seven hours long, but don’t be put off. It has some of the best shots of grazing cows and angry peasants committed to reel, and I wanted it to be longer. It’s mesmerizing in a way that makes it one of the film classics of the new century. I find Werckmeister Harmonies too corny but it has some fine scenes. Less traditionally thought of as Hungarian is the great Emeric Pressburger , who collaborated with Michael Powell on numerous fine films. Al...
2. Movies : Bela Tarr , Satantango . It’s over seven hours long, but don’t be put off. It has some of the best shots of grazing cows and angry peasants committed to reel, and I wanted it to be longer. It’s mesmerizing in a way that makes it one of the film classics of the new century. I find Werckmeister Harmonies too corny but it has some fine scenes. Less traditionally thought of as Hungarian is the great Emeric Pressburger , who collaborated with Michael Powell on numerous fine films. Al...
1. Author : Peter Nadas, A Book of Memories , is a classic novel of ideas which is under-read in the United States. Nadas has a new book coming out this fall . Imre Kertesz doesn’t do much for me.
1. Author : Peter Nadas, A Book of Memories , is a classic novel of ideas which is under-read in the United States. Nadas has a new book coming out this fall . Imre Kertesz doesn’t do much for me.
Addendum : Tim Worstall sends along this useful link .
4. Blogger Tim Kane has a new eNovel , which I thought was very good, some free chapters are here .
And tomorrow the physical version of the book is available from Amazon , Barnes&Noble.com , and in book stores.
Patrick Wilcken is the author of this excellent book , excerpt:
It’s an interesting book .
That is from David Mamet’s new The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture .
The answer and full interview is here , concerning Galor’s new book Unified Growth Theory . Here is an earlier interview with Oded Galor .
My very first (co-authored) book was on the NME , circa 1994. The NME is most interesting when monetary institutions are in an abnormal state, but now “abnormal” is “the new normal.” The NME is less interesting in explaining, say, the macroeconomics of 1963.
By the way, I just pre-ordered Ezra F. Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China , which looks to be an important book.
Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age , by Robert Bellah.
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean , by David Abulafia.
I’ve been reading the fascinating A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander et.al., a book which I recommend to all urbanists, all architecture fans, Jane Jacobs fans, and Hayekians. In passing, the authors toss out a proposal for reorganizing modern universities. It has two simple principles:
That is from Mann’s forthcoming book 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created , reviewed enthusiastically here .
2. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Another Side of Bob Dylan and Blood on the Tracks and most of all Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits volume II are the albums I listen to most often. The last one sounds horrible from its name, but it was conceived conceptually, avoids the traditional problems of greatest hits albums (unlike Vol. I), and has some not otherwise available tracks; highly recommended. Then comes Time Out of Mind . I think of Bringing it All Back Home as the “best” Dylan album, but I enjoy...
2. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Another Side of Bob Dylan and Blood on the Tracks and most of all Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits volume II are the albums I listen to most often. The last one sounds horrible from its name, but it was conceived conceptually, avoids the traditional problems of greatest hits albums (unlike Vol. I), and has some not otherwise available tracks; highly recommended. Then comes Time Out of Mind . I think of Bringing it All Back Home as the “best” Dylan album, but I enjoy...
2. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Another Side of Bob Dylan and Blood on the Tracks and most of all Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits volume II are the albums I listen to most often. The last one sounds horrible from its name, but it was conceived conceptually, avoids the traditional problems of greatest hits albums (unlike Vol. I), and has some not otherwise available tracks; highly recommended. Then comes Time Out of Mind . I think of Bringing it All Back Home as the “best” Dylan album, but I enjoy...
2. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and Another Side of Bob Dylan and Blood on the Tracks and most of all Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits volume II are the albums I listen to most often. The last one sounds horrible from its name, but it was conceived conceptually, avoids the traditional problems of greatest hits albums (unlike Vol. I), and has some not otherwise available tracks; highly recommended. Then comes Time Out of Mind . I think of Bringing it All Back Home as the “best” Dylan album, but I enjoy...