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Janet Frank

Janet Frank is a cellist with the National Symphony Orchestra.

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When Maestros Were Maestros

Innovator, mentor, tyrant, Leopold Stokowski brought real joy to music making

by Janet Frank | Friday, December 01, 2006
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Musical Chairs

A veteran cellist with the National Symphony takes a close look at the entrances and exits of world-famous conductors

by Janet Frank | Monday, June 10, 2013
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Syncopated Clock, Indeed

On Leroy Anderson’s centennial, a defense of the popular composer from an orchestra’s stage

by Janet Frank | Sunday, June 01, 2008

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died this year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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