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Otherwise I've been spending some time reacquainting myself - [Christmas at John Wanamaker's](http://www.georgehunka.com/philadelphia/christmas-at-john-wanamakers/) - Philadelphia may not love you back, but it tolerates you, which makes all the difference. - [Ring resounding](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/ring-resounding/) - I spent several pleasant hours this holiday weekend with Putting the Record Straight, a 1981 memoir by John Culshaw, the legendary Decca Records producer who oversaw many of the great postwar opera recordings. His autobiography begins with his years as a soldier in World War II and takes him through his career as the manager - [The Golden Ring](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/the-golden-ring/) - The 1964 BBC documentary The Golden Ring gathers together many of my enthusiasms into one 87-minute film: Wagner, Vienna, analog recording, and whatever pleasures all of these entail. Nearly sixty years later, it's now a historical document of a particular moment in time, art, and technology, a portrait of one of the greatest recordings ever - [Opera as high (and low) drama](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/opera-as-high-and-low-drama/) - A few Saturdays ago, I found myself in the unusual position of having three full hours at home alone, family temporarily scattered around Manhattan, and I took the opportunity to do something I hadn't done in years: listen to the live Metropolitan Opera broadcast on WQXR. Turning up the volume on the stereo, I sat - [Footnotes from Mueller's life](http://www.georgehunka.com/comics/footnotes-from-muellers-life/) - Now available and shipping from Europe, Partial, a new chapbook series from Christoph Mueller, is billed as "Footnotes from the artist's life." The first issue looks to be a gorgeous miscellany of graphics, text, and typography from this unique comics artist; the inimitable Chris Ware, another of my favorite comics artists, says that Partial "captures - [From off the streets of Durham comes ...](http://www.georgehunka.com/magazines/from-off-the-streets-of-durham-comes/) - Issue #44 of Mineshaft magazine can be found wherever particular people congregate. - [The awful German language](http://www.georgehunka.com/german/the-awful-german-language/) - Mark Twain on its beauties and ... the other thing. - [Back home](http://www.georgehunka.com/central-europe/back-home/) - A postcard from Vienna. - [Credo: Kenneth Clark](http://www.georgehunka.com/vienna/credo-kenneth-clark/) - Here I stand, says Kenneth Clark, and myself too. - [The triumph of wisdom](http://www.georgehunka.com/vienna/the-triumph-of-wisdom/) - A painting by Bartholomeus Spranger. - [What can't be said](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/what-cant-be-said/) - A few words about opera from Kenneth Clark. - [Klimt's landscapes at the Neue Galerie](http://www.georgehunka.com/vienna/klimts-landscapes-at-the-neue-galerie/) - Opens next month and runs through May 6. - [The end of "Civilisation"?](http://www.georgehunka.com/television/the-end-of-civilisation/) - Civilisation, singlar and plural. - [Patterns](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/patterns/) - A new recording of the complete works for piano and cello by Morton Feldman. - [Schönberg/Kraus](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/schonberg-kraus/) - A new exhibition at Vienna's Schönberg Center celebrates the 150th birthdays of the composer and the satirist. - ["The limits of my language means the limits of my world"](http://www.georgehunka.com/books/the-limits-of-my-language-means-the-limits-of-my-world/) - A new translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus from W.W. Norton. - [On the air in Vienna](http://www.georgehunka.com/radio/on-the-air-in-vienna/) - Hear me now! And donate today. - [Marjorie Perloff (1931-2024)](http://www.georgehunka.com/books/marjorie-perloff-1931-2024/) - The critic, memoirist, and translator was 92 - [Streaming Easter from the Stephansdom](http://www.georgehunka.com/vienna/streaming-easter-from-the-stephansdom/) - Holiday programming from the St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. - [The last days of mankind](http://www.georgehunka.com/vienna/the-last-days-of-mankind/) - On Deborah Sengl's unique, contemporary representation of Karl Kraus's massive 1918 satire. - [An SOS from radio klassik Stephansdom](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/an-sos-from-radio-klassik-stephansdom/) - A call for help from a global classical music station. - [A toast to ...](http://www.georgehunka.com/literature/a-toast-to-3/) - The week at the blog, March 24-30, 2024. - [Guten morgen, Wien!](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/guten-morgen-wien/) - I'm not much for social media but I still maintain a Facebook account, primarily to announce new posts from this journal, and this morning I was glad to do so. Marion Eigl, the morning host on radio klassik Stephansdom, walked us through her arrival at the station in the wee small hours of the day - [From chaos to order and back again](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/from-chaos-to-order-and-back-again/) - In his study of fin-de-siècle Vienna, Carl Schorske turned not to Schoenberg, Berg, or Webern to introduce his themes, but to Maurice Ravel's 1920 La valse. "I feel this work a kind of apotheosis of the Viennese waltz, linked in my mind with the impression of a fantastic whirl of destiny," Ravel said, and Schorske - ["That's why the rats are back"](http://www.georgehunka.com/vienna/thats-why-the-rats-are-back/) - At the Museum Dorotheergasse of the Jüdischen Museum Wien, the exhibition of Deborah Sengl's taxidermic interpretation of Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind will continue through September 29, and if you're in Vienna, you certainly should stop in and see it. (And with any luck the Austrian Cultural Forum here in New York will - [A toast to ... Arnold Schönberg](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/a-toast-to-arnold-schonberg/) - Today marks the 150th anniversary of Arnold Schönberg's birth, and the Austrian Cultural Forum here in New York will celebrate next week on Friday, September 19, with the opening of Arnold Schönberg: 150 Years, an exhibition running through November 8 devoted to the life and work of the modernist composer, a collaboration with Vienna's Arnold - [25 years of Mineshaft](http://www.georgehunka.com/magazines/25-years-of-mineshaft/) - The mailman slipped me the latest issue of Mineshaft #45 last week -- the 25th anniversary issue of the magazine that published its first issue back in the last century. I read through just about the whole thing in one sitting, but "read" may not be entirely accurate: each issue is a world in itself - [Sound all around](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/sound-all-around/) - This Friday night, November 15, at 7:30 pm, my lovely wife Marilyn Nonken will take to the stage at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music and present Piano 360, a program of new and recent immersive musical works "surrounding the audience with a spatial audio ring of speakers," according to the DiMenna Center's page for - [Is it 1933 yet?](http://www.georgehunka.com/german/is-it-1933-yet/) - Neue Sachlichkeit/New Objectivity opens at New York's Neue Galerie on February 20. - [Sprechen Sie Deutsch?](http://www.georgehunka.com/german/sprechen-sie-deutsch/) - Wagner's first major opera engenders a few thoughts on the German Enlightenment. - [Dufourt / Nonken](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/dufourt-nonken/) - Hugues Dufourt: L'Origine du monde, from pianist Marilyn Nonken, will be released on Friday, February 21. - [Three years](http://www.georgehunka.com/central-europe/three-years/) - Today marks the third anniversary of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, Russia has inflicted over 12,456 Ukrainian civilian deaths and 28,382 injuries since then, while four million Ukrainians are internally displaced and 6.8 million Ukrainians have fled the country. Any sovereign nation is entirely within its rights - [The world of yesterday](http://www.georgehunka.com/books/the-world-of-yesterday/) - A short passage from Stefan Zweig's memoirs. - [The idea of community](http://www.georgehunka.com/books/the-idea-of-community/) - A passage from Stefan Zweig's "The World of Yesterday." - [My five minutes and 25 seconds of fame](http://www.georgehunka.com/radio/my-five-minutes-and-25-seconds-of-fame/) - I'm big in Vienna. - [Last years](http://www.georgehunka.com/vienna/last-years/) - A new Egon Schiele exhibition opens at the Leopold Museum on March 28, 2025. - [Clarity amidst the static](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/clarity-among-the-static/) - On Vienna's Radio Klassik Stephansdom. - [The saving grace of modesty](http://www.georgehunka.com/philadelphia/the-saving-grace-of-modesty/) - I've just gotten back from a visit to Philadelphia, my first in eight months, which was far too long. Though only in town for a long weekend, I managed to take care of some unfinished business -- a first drink at the Pen & Pencil Club, introducing my wife to Dirty Frank's -- and perhaps - [A member of the club](http://www.georgehunka.com/philadelphia/a-member-of-the-club/) - Journalism has been taking a body blow lately, what with accusations of "fake news" and bias, but this ignores the terrific and courageous role that journalism played in much of the twentieth century and continues to play today. From Gareth Jones' reportage on the Ukrainian Holodomor in the 1930s to Vasily Grossman's "The Hell of - [A walk through the city](http://www.georgehunka.com/philadelphia/a-walk-through-the-city/) - Anthony Bourdain visited Philadelphia in 2012 as part of the second season of his series The Layover (I'd never heard of it either; it lasted all of two seasons on the Travel Channel). One of these episodes was devoted to Philadelphia, where he spent 48 hours sampling food and drink, among other things, and watching - [Down memory lane to the corner of 13th and Pine](http://www.georgehunka.com/philadelphia/down-memory-lane-to-the-corner-of-13th-and-pine/) - All cities have their landmark bars — in New York they might include McSorley’s and the Cedar Tavern, for example, not to mention Pfaff’s; the latter two are with us no more — but unquestionably one of Philadelphia’s is Dirty Frank’s. We’ll be taking the kids down to Philly sometime in the next few weeks, - [Hide and seek](http://www.georgehunka.com/philadelphia/hide-and-seek/) - The idea of ruins -- archaeological, architectural, cultural, even psychological -- lies at the center of Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City, published in November 2017 by Temple University Press; it's a philosophical meditation masquerading as a coffee table book. A handsome book it is, too. Photographer Joseph E.B. Elliott provides contemplative perspectives on a variety - [As bad as we say it is](http://www.georgehunka.com/philadelphia/as-bad-as-we-say-it-is/) - When in the early 1970s the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce needed a slogan to promote the city to businesses and tourists, the best it could come up with was "Philadelphia isn't as bad as Philadelphians say it is." It's hard to say exactly what the Chamber of Commerce expected as a result. In the ten - [Philadelphia: A Brief History](http://www.georgehunka.com/philadelphia/philadelphia-a-brief-history/) - Earlier this month the thonkingly huge history of New York in the early twentieth century, Greater Gotham (Oxford University Press, 4.6 pounds), landed in bookstores. Suitable for pressing leaves or dropping upon large cockroaches from a great height, the book is the long-awaited sequel to the 1998 Gotham (Oxford University Press, 5.8 pounds), the history - [Sunday CD: Seelentrost](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/sunday-cd-seelentrost/) - A brief review of Seelentrost (Perfect Noise), the debut album by soprano Isabel Schicketanz. - [Jetzt spenden!](http://www.georgehunka.com/german/jetzt-spenden/) - Support radio klassik Stephansdom this Valentine's Day. - [Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/ich-bin-der-welt-abhanden-gekommen/) - Jessye Norman performs the song by Gustav Mahler. - [Wallets out](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/wallets-out/) - Two noteworthy fundraising campaigns, from Austria to the USA. - [Tristan in Philadelphia](http://www.georgehunka.com/opera/tristan-in-philadelphia/) - Hear a recent concert performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, now streaming on WRTI. - [A toast to ... Jackson Lamb](http://www.georgehunka.com/a-toast-to/a-toast-to-jackson-lamb/) - The week of September 1-5, 2025. - [On the streets of Vienna](http://www.georgehunka.com/vienna/on-the-streets-of-vienna/) - Taking a walk with Philipp Broinger. - [Sam's New York hat trick](http://www.georgehunka.com/theatre/sams-new-york-hat-trick/) - Three Beckett plays arrive in Manhattan this fall. - [Bach from Vienna](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/bach-from-vienna/) - radio klassik Stephansdom presents the Hans Swarowsky recording of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion. - [It's Spendentag!](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/its-spendentag/) - Your regularly-scheduled post urging you to contribute to radio klassik Stephansdom. - [The Hero of Solferino](http://www.georgehunka.com/books/the-hero-of-solferino/) - About "The Radetzky March" by Joseph Roth. - [Bad behavior](http://www.georgehunka.com/philosophy/bad-behavior/) - Pursuit: The Founders’ Guide to Happiness, a new podcast from the National Constitution Center, debuts next week. - [Philadelphia Friday: Film and ... art?](http://www.georgehunka.com/philadelphia/philadelphia-friday-film-and-phart/) - Films in Philadelphia and a new name for its art museum. - [The Hunkas of Fairmount Avenue](http://www.georgehunka.com/philadelphia/the-hunkas-of-fairmount-avenue/) - Today is the ninth anniversary of my father's death. He was born on January 4, 1931, in his parents' bedroom at 451 Fairmount Avenue in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia. (That's the second-floor front in the photograph to the right.) He would have died there, too, most likely, if he hadn't required hospice care - [Go Birds](http://www.georgehunka.com/philadelphia/go-birds/) - The Road to the Super Bowl runs through Center City Philadelphia. - [Go Birds](http://www.georgehunka.com/philadelphia/go-birds-2/) - Welcoming the Philadelphia Eagles as they return to the field. - [On newsstands now](http://www.georgehunka.com/philadelphia/on-newsstands-now/) - NOTE: Jason Sheehan's "Looking for Luisa" is now available online here. The uniformed representative of the United States Postal Service just dropped the July 2024 issue of Philadelphia magazine into my mailbox, and I recommend you hie down to your local newsdealer to pick up a copy. I found it wonderfully readable; so did the - [Wagner and Weber for the summer](http://www.georgehunka.com/opera/wagner-and-weber-for-the-summer/) - Two great German composers form the majority of radio klassik Stephansdom's programming this summer. - [Banking on it](http://www.georgehunka.com/vienna/banking-on-it/) - PREMIERE!, a new exhibition of Austrian New Objectivist work, runs at Vienna's Leopold Museum through October. - [In pursuit](http://www.georgehunka.com/philadelphia/in-pursuit/) - A new series from History Making Productions examines Philadelphia's role in American history. - [Morgen ist Spendentag](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/morgen-ist-spendentag/) - Support classical music in Vienna and Philadelphia tomorrow (or -- why wait? -- today). - [Café Schopenhauer](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/cafe-schopenhauer/) - Lifting my glass to the Sage of Frankfurt-am-Main and Vienna. - [Metaphysical stocking stuffers](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/metaphysical-stocking-stuffers/) - What to get for the Wagnerite pessimist this holiday season. - ["Where can I go now, I, a Trotta?"](http://www.georgehunka.com/central-europe/where-can-i-go-now-i-a-trotta/) - Brief notes on Joseph Roth's "The Emperor's Tomb." - [Happy 100th](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/happy-100th/) - Celebrating the centennial of Morton Feldman's birth. - [Self-help with Arthur Schopenhauer](http://www.georgehunka.com/books/self-help-with-arthur-schopenhauer/) - A review of a new biography of Schopenhauer by David Bather Woods. - [Letters from Durham](http://www.georgehunka.com/books/letters-from-durham/) - Mineshaft magazine celebrates its 47th issue. - [Opernabend: "A Freudian bubble bath of the psycho-erotic"](http://www.georgehunka.com/opera/opernabend-a-freudian-bubble-bath-of-the-psycho-erotic/) - Listen to Richard Strauss's Die Liebe der Danae on radio klassik Stephansdom on Wednesday, January 17, at 2:00 pm Eastern time. - ["An elegy to ... music's departing landscape"](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/an-elegy-to-musics-departing-landscape/) - Marilyn Nonken performs Morton Feldman's "Triadic Memories" at NYC's Steinway Hall in March. - [Opernabend: Don Giovanni, Vienna, 1955](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/opernabend-don-giovanni-vienna-1955/) - Stream it from radio klassik Stephansdom on Saturday, January 31, at 2:00 pm Eastern time. - [All in the family](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/all-in-the-family/) - L'Origine du Monde, an album of the music of Hugues Dufourt performed by Marilyn Nonken, wins the 2025 “Coup de cœur” from the Académie Charles Cros. - [Radio love](http://www.georgehunka.com/radio/radio-love/) - February 12 is donation day at radio klassik Stephansdom. - [Quasquicentennial](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/quasquicentennial/) - WRTI raises a glass to the Philadelphia Orchestra's 125th anniversary. - [Opernachmittag](http://www.georgehunka.com/opera/opernachmittag/) - This week's Met Opera broadcast: Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. - [Way, way back](http://www.georgehunka.com/german/way-way-back/) - The Venus of Willendorf and the Negauer Helmet: You can't get much more ancient than that. - [Opernabend and World Radio Day](http://www.georgehunka.com/opera/opernabend-and-world-radio-day/) - This week in opera, and a few notes on the joy of listening to radio. - [The egg](http://www.georgehunka.com/philadelphia/the-egg/) - For my birthday last week I treated myself to watching 1776, the 1972 film adaptation of the Sherman Edwards/Peter Stone musical about the creation of the Declaration of Independence. It's about as accurate as a musical comedy about the Declaration can be, what with John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and others singing and prancing around Independence - [Opernabend: Trouble at the mill](http://www.georgehunka.com/opera/opernabend-trouble-at-the-mill/) - Eugen D'Albert's Tiefland, on February 28 from radio klassik Stephansdom. - [Auf wiedersehen, Wien](http://www.georgehunka.com/vienna/auf-wiedersehen-wien/) - Memories of the past week. - [Lichtspiel](http://www.georgehunka.com/books/lichtspiel/) - An apology and a book recommendation. - [Strike up the band](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/strike-up-the-band/) - Appreciating Eugene Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra. - [A personal note](http://www.georgehunka.com/religion/a-personal-note/) - On June 1, I was formally confirmed as a member of the Episcopal Church, the US branch of the Anglican Communion, at Grace Church, New York, Bishop Mary Glasspool officiating. This was not the result of any road-to-Damascus moment -- the skies did not open and I did not drop to my knees (a good - [Solitary tourism, in Vienna and elsewhere](http://www.georgehunka.com/books/solitary-tourism-in-vienna-and-elsewhere/) - A excerpt from Simon Winder's "Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History." - [Women and the Russo-Ukrainian War](http://www.georgehunka.com/ukraine/women-and-the-russo-ukrainian-war/) - A new book, posthumously published, from Victoria Amelina. - [I was right the first time](http://www.georgehunka.com/miscellany/i-was-right-the-first-time/) - On the day after the election in November, I published a post called "Republic of morons" here; after some due consideration, I removed it, feeling that perhaps it was a bit too harsh on any of those who might have voted for Donald J. Trump, a few of whom I know (and if you're reading - [In memoriam: Richard Foreman](http://www.georgehunka.com/theatre/richard-foreman/) - One night in 2003, I showed up at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery for Panic! (How to Be Happy!), that year's offering from Richard Foreman. The year before I'd first visited the theater for Maria del Bosco and written -- quite enthusiastically, I suppose -- at my blog about my - [Back to Wien](http://www.georgehunka.com/vienna/back-to-wien/) - I've been absent here over the summer, but my imagination and spirit carry me to Vienna still. As I continue to listen to -- and support -- radio klassik Stephansdom, I remain fascinated by the city's fin-de-siècle culture, of course. However, in my reading I'm increasingly drawn to the city's baroque and classical spirit of - [On the periphery](http://www.georgehunka.com/central-europe/on-the-periphery/) - I want to start the month off by recommending Marjorie Perloff's Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire, published by the University of Chicago Press. The book defines what Perloff calls "Austro-Modernism," a form of modernist thinking engendered in the years 1914 through 1933, when the Habsburg Empire collapsed and its - [My Vienna](http://www.georgehunka.com/vienna/my-vienna/) - A few notes on Vienna, published here in 2017. - [A toast to Mineshaft](http://www.georgehunka.com/magazines/a-toast-to-mineshaft/) - In many ways, I'm still an analog boy in a digital world, and when it comes to leisure material for reading, watching, and listening, I prefer the hand-made sort of entertainment, whether it's mid-budget comedy movies from the 1930s or what's generally become known as roots music. Books and magazines that suit my temperament are - [The analog way](http://www.georgehunka.com/music/the-analog-way/) - From June 2021: Currently sitting in a room nearby are boxes containing a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO turntable with a Sumiko Rainier cartridge; this’ll be powered by a Pro-Ject PhonoBox S2 phono preamp, running into a Sony STR-DH190 stereo receiver with Bluetooth capabilities. These, as well as a Bluesound Node 2i wireless music streamer and - [Durham dispatch](http://www.georgehunka.com/magazines/durham-dispatch/) - The uniformed representative of the United States Postal Service slipped the latest issue of Mineshaft magazine under my door a few weeks ago, and for that I am grateful. This issue, the 43rd, is as usual an excellent exhumation and examination of various features of the American landscape, and they've really outdone themselves this time. - [The illustrious R. Crumb](http://www.georgehunka.com/comics/the-illustrious-r-crumb/) - I'm still going through the boxes in this blog's attic and came across the below review of a 2019 R. Crumb exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery, which was first published here on March 19, 2019. The exhibition catalog for the show was belatedly published two years later by David Zwirner Books under the title - [The Mighty Millborough](http://www.georgehunka.com/comics/the-mighty-millborough/) - A few more items from the cupboard, these concerning cartoonist Christoph Mueller and published here a few years ago. Originally published on March 4, 2020 I'm in receipt of The Mighty Millborough, a fine self-published portfolio of work by Christoph Mueller, currently of Germany. 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