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Mark N. Grant

Mark N. Grant is a composer. He is the author of Maestros of the Pen: A History of Classical Music Criticism in America and The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical.

The Disappearing Modernists

The Disappearing Modernists

Where did it all go wrong for so much music of the 20th century?

by Mark N. Grant | Thursday, August 04, 2022
A Prophecy Unfulfilled?

A Prophecy Unfulfilled?

What a new book and six companion videos have to say about the fate of Black classical music in America

by Mark N. Grant | Saturday, April 02, 2022

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 last 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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