Have you ever wondered what Richard Wagner would have looked like in a superhero costume? Or how Ursula Vaughan Williams jived on the dancefloor? Or how good Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was in bed? Fifty years ago this month, Ken Russell’s “Lisztomania” was premiered in London. In this film, the most outrageous of the 12 pictures the […]
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Thin Fire
Not long ago, I read Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. One line stayed with me: “Then I may tell you that the very next words I read were these—‘Chloe liked Olivia. . .’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes […]