It’s a few days since I finished Thomas Kessner’s The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City 1880-1915 so I hope I can still do the book justice. I usually try to write reviews soon after I’m done reading.
The book is a few (three) decades old now, and it’s hard to [...]
July 11, 2008
Reading update #4
July 11, 2008
Nice Work If You Can Get It
I had a rather interesting flight from Prague to Larnaca yesterday, sitting next to a 19yo member of one of Harvard’s a capella choirs. The boys are on a 3 month of tour of most of Europe, Asia, and Mexico. You can get an idea of what they do in the [...]
July 11, 2008
Something to remember
Florence Foster Jenkins was perhaps the most self-confident woman who ever lived. She thought herself to be God’s greatest gift to music, and she demonstrated her talent in solo concerts in New York City in the 1930s. She even made some recordings, which you can now find on YouTube. If you have never heard the [...]
