Jan 13 Blog George Bernard Shaw, The Perfect Music Critic Nobel Prize winner George Bernhard Shaw is best known for his contributions to the theatrical arts. However, long before he ever began writing Arms and the Man or Pygmalion, while he was still struggling to support himself financially with a literary career, he worked as a music critic in London. During this lesser-known period of […] By WUOL Jan 13 Blog George Bernard Shaw, The Perfect Music Critic By WUOL
Jan 06 Blog Claudel Lives Again in Heggie’s Here/After: Songs of Lost Voices Art often turns to itself for inspiration. An interdisciplinary approach to creating art has been used for ages, be it paintings of Ophelia drowned or Mussorgsky’s musical rendering of Pictures at an Exhibition. From the first operas written on the story of Orpheus to Stephen Sondheim’s depiction of the life of painter Georges Seurat in […] By WUOL Jan 06 Blog Claudel Lives Again in Heggie’s Here/After: Songs of Lost Voices By WUOL