Winter Luncheon: 14 Dec 2016

Winter Break ReadsReading Highlights from 2016

2016 purchases600+ new print books598 new CDs100’s new LPsNew print periodicals:

Paris ReviewNew York Times Sunday editionEconomist

InterlochenAlums

I went for three years, and I loved these eight week reprieves…

“Guiding America’s Gifted Youth” was its slogan,…

Working at art, dreaming of art, being passionate and gaily pretentious about art, being competent to good to exceptional art—all this was given. You were normal and you were outstanding….(134)

“Even Van Cliburn wore the corduroys and blue when he visited to play for us.”

He was friends with everyone….

✤ Yet he also sat for hours talking to budding musicians at gatherings such as the Interlochen National Music Camp in Michigan, sharing ice creams and munching through heaps of hamburgers between rehearsing, playing, and sometimes conducting as often as three times in a day. (286)

Xenophobia–dictionary.com 2016 word of the year

Series

The Tempest The Merchant of Venice

The Winter’s Tale

The Taming of the Shrew

Sciences

Big Beautiful Books

Sandow Birk

Lannan Conversation

Time

Gleick firmly believes time travel is not

possible but he cannot prove it.

Our lives are full of time travel—imaginations that are real—books are time machines where we use our brains, which is liberating.

—Chicago Humanities Festival

We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less our own than we imagine.

As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default. (7)

Like love, there can never be too much ‘good music.’

(Beethoven, Brahms & Blues)

Interlude 1: On Manic Record Collectors

Interlude 3: Eugene Ormandy’s Baton

Sixth Conversation: “There’s No Single Way to Teach. You Make It Up as You Go Along.”

(Playlist)

✤ Jim Harrison

✤ C.D. Wright

✤ William Trevor

✤ Leonard Cohen

✤ Gene Wilder

✤ Prince

✤ David Bowie

In remembrance of…

✤ NPRs Book Concierge

✤ Brainpickings Best 2016

✤ New Yorker Best 2016

✤ Huffington’s Best Fiction 2016

Wishing All a Reading-Filled Holiday!