Friday, December 21, 2012
Friday, December 07, 2012
In Memorium: Jonathan Harvey, Modernist And Sacred Classical Composer
Paul Griffiths obituary in New York Times
Photo credit: (c) Maurice Foxall/Faber Music, via Associated Press.
Friday, October 19, 2012
In Re Post-Classical Ensemble: Interpreting Shostakovich And Deepening Classical Music Culture And Education In The Nation's Capital
This three-week festival— interpreting Shostakovich the man, Shostakovich the composer, and specific Shostakovich compositions—was developed by composer and conductor Angel Gil-Ordóñez and musicologist and producer Joseph Horowitz -- and is comprised of three concerts at the National Gallery of Art, Dumbarton Concerts, and Georgetown University, as well as four film events at the National Gallery with musical preludes and a biography-themed seminar. The participants include Solomon Volkov, author of Shostakovich's memoirs; the eminent British filmmaker Tony Palmer; film historian Peter Rollberg; and music historian Roy Guenther.
Starting this autumn, Mr. Gil-Ordóñez will serve as the Music Director of the Georgetown University Orchestra. Their fall concert will feature music of Beethoven, Chaikovsky, and Musorgsky as orchestrated by Shostakovich.
Starting this autumn, Mr. Gil-Ordóñez will serve as the Music Director of the Georgetown University Orchestra. Their fall concert will feature music of Beethoven, Chaikovsky, and Musorgsky as orchestrated by Shostakovich.
Friday, October 12, 2012
In Memorium, Andrew F. Brimmer
Dr. Andrew F. Brimmer
Photo credit: William E. Sauro/The New York Times
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We travelled together to Poland in mid-1993 to conduct a post-Communist economic transition funding program evaluation for the U.S. Department of State.
Thursday, October 04, 2012
World Bank To Address Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development

The Economics of Uniqueness
Investing in Historic City Cores and Cultural Heritage Assets for Sustainable Development
Edited by Guido Licciardi and Rana Amirtahmasebi
This book collects innovative research papers authored by leading scholars and practitioners in heritage economics, and presents the most current knowledge on how heritage assets can serve as drivers of local economic development. What this book tries to suggest is a workable approach to explicitly take into account the cultural dimensions of urban regeneration in agglomerations that have a history and possess a unique character, going beyond an approach based solely on major cultural heritage assets or landmarks.
Read full book here.
Photo credit: Kyiv, Ukraine, Future European Union. Wikipedia.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
In Memoriam, Dmitriy S.
My father-in-law, Dmitriy S., was 14 years old when his mother -- my wife's grandmother -- was killed by the German Nazis in early 1941 in a village near Kharkiv, Ukraine. She was one of millions of civilians killed in that war. Earlier, Dmitriy's father, a Tatar village leader and healer, had cured the young Dmitriy of malaria by boiling-down crayfish. Dmitriy later served as an officer of the Soviet Strategic Air Forces, and with his wife, a doctor, had two daughters -- a cultural scientist and a biomedical scientist -- and two grandchildren.





