Anne Schuster Hunter

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Broad Street Review, February 14, 2017 “Tiny Art, Big Stories,” review of the Rosenbach Museum’s “The Art of Ownership: Bookplates and Book Collectors from 1480 to the Present.”

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Tilts at Musical Windmills

The 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes gives us the chance to marvel once again at his most amazing creation: Don Quixote, four centuries old and going strong for every one of them. Since its first appearance in 1605 (Part I) and 1615 (Part II), the novel and its addled knight-errant have been fixtures in Western culture, inspiring operas, ballets, plays, music, movies, musicals, stories, and novels, as well as tributes from Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, and Anthony Burgess to Georg Philipp Telemann, Richard Strauss, and Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam. A production of Man of La Mancha is probably playing within a hundred-mile radius of you right now. 

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Tempesta Di Mare

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Show business! Seventeenth-century show business, that is. The seventeenth century from mid-century on was theater boom time. Theaters sprang up everywhere all over Europe: private, semi-private, public, in palaces, in clubs, in salons, in big new commercial theaters, in pleasure gardens. And during the seventeenth century, a show always included music. This was the Golden Age of theater and the Golden Age was wired for sound…