or, On Democratic Elitism Bunthorne, from Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience It's not easy being an elitist. Properly filled ...

To achieve at least C1 fluency in German, Italian, and Russian. To read the entire Old Testament in Hebrew. To read the Iliad and the Od...

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His cats, however, look amiable. Privileged this morning to enjoy a day of leisure, that is, rest and study, upon waking I picked up my iP...

We here at APLV would like to extend warm congratulations to a fine young woman, Derpina, upon the eve of her graduation from college. Co...

I am not one of the pesky many perpetually scoffing at programmatic music for being "limited." Yet. . . in this one case ...

Bergman's opening scene to Mozart's final opera is itself a miniature masterpiece. We begin with the Three Ladies veiled ...

"At any time between 1750 and 1930 if you had asked educated people to describe the aim of poetry, art, or music, they would have repli...