Articles by TheIncensedProfessor
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As angry as he is erudite, the gentleman known only as The Incensed Professor steps onto the PluggedInto stage with a few bones to pick and minds to expand.
As a High School student, I can remember being shocked at male ballet dancers in leotards. I had not much experience of watching dance, and it seemed to me that the men had little else on but spray paint. This did not bode well for my life as a
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August 14, 2019 // 0 Comments
I suppose there are people who don’t like Mozart, perhaps for the same reason Oscar Wilde found Haydn “heartless”: his music was too cheerful. At any rate, given the contemporary use of playing classical music over loudspeakers to
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August 5, 2019 // 0 Comments
Vienna is a magical city; it is considered to be one of the most livable cities on earth. I was pleased to get back to visit; for one thing, I missed the Bruegels in the Kunsthistorices Museum, and I wanted to see them, particularly “The
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July 24, 2019 // 0 Comments
I decided to take a musical tour of Vienna, Prague, and Leipzig (for the Bach Festival), followed by a couple of weeks at my club in London. As I wanted to blog the trip, I thought it would be fun to write about going first class to compare it
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July 18, 2019 // 0 Comments
I decided to take a musical tour of Vienna, Prague, and Leipzig (for the Bach Festival), followed by a couple of weeks at my club in London. As I wanted to blog the trip, I thought it would be fun to write about going first class to compare it
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June 7, 2019 // 0 Comments
I decided to take a musical tour of Vienna, Prague, and Leipzig (for the Bach Festival), followed by a couple of weeks at my club in London. As I wanted to blog the trip, I thought it would be fun to write about going first class to compare it
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March 26, 2019 // 0 Comments
My disenchantment with American education, including the Universities over which I once swooned, is that, like the Church at Ephesus, Universities (at least in this country) have left their “first love.” In the Academy’s attempt to lure
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September 20, 2018 // 0 Comments
Professor C. S. Lewis indicated we no longer burn witches because we no longer believe they can harm us. The corollary must be that we believe wholeheartedly in science because we have seen how much it can benefit us. The benefits of science
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September 9, 2018 // 0 Comments
In considering the magnificent oeuvre of Peter Carl Fabergé, I may have given the impression that his creations are my favorite goldsmith’s work. In Western Art, that is probably true. Though Fabergé did Slavic pieces, he is really in
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September 3, 2018 // 0 Comments
