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Some News, and Some Extraordinary New Music
The past few weeks have brought some major life changes, a great deal of travel, and some very exciting news that I hope to share with you soon.
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The Man Who Lives Forever
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Eurovision and the Death of the Artist
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The Legend of Gilbert Kaplan
How Music Can Change a Life
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A Friday Morning Concert
This morning's concert with the Israel Camerata Jerusalem Orchestra at the Tel Aviv Museum deepened a conviction I've been developing: that attending…
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Anders Zorn in Hamburg: Beauty Without Apology
How one exhibition remembered what a museum is for
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Where Are Our Cultural Heroes?
How Stern, Bernstein, and Rostropovich fought for civilisation—and why no one does anymore
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The Tragic Case of Vivian Silver
And how to make sense of it
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Israel’s Flotilla
How Israel Taught the World to Sail Against It
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The Ghetto with an Atom Bomb
On Orbán, the Israeli Right, and the Failure of Zionism
May 2
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Lebanon, Again
The same ceasefire, the same enemy, the same betrayal.
Apr 17
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Unconditional Surrender
How the West surrendered victory (again) to Iran
Apr 8
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The Unworthy and Unwilling Gulf States
In the Israel–America–Iran War
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Yonatan Daon-Stern
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Some News, and Some Extraordinary New Music
The past few weeks have brought some major life changes, a great deal of travel, and some very exciting news that I hope to share with you soon.
Sep 9
•
Yonatan Daon-Stern
12
The Man Who Lives Forever
It is a strange idea for a man who was born long after he died to write a tribute to him.
Aug 25
•
Yonatan Daon-Stern
15
13
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Two Unknown Symphonies That Blew Me Away
At the height of World War II, these two symphonies answered destruction with defiance
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The Last Song Before Eternity
What Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde knows about death, creation, and what remains
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