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Measure by Measure

Measure by Measure

A blog about classical music from Sudip Bose, the Scholar’s managing editor.

Previous posts

The Story of an Exile

The Story of an Exile

Arnold Schoenberg and his Piano Concerto

by Sudip Bose | Thursday, February 06, 2020
The Composer as Dissident

The Composer as Dissident

Karl Amadeus Hartmann and the act of bearing witness

by Sudip Bose | Friday, January 24, 2020
George Lazenby

Beethoven and James Bond

Recalling the past, surveying the future

by Sudip Bose | Thursday, January 09, 2020
Van Cliburn performing

Nationalist Anthems

Remembering a time when composers mattered more

by Sudip Bose | Monday, December 02, 2019
Food of Love

Food of Love

The magic of Henry Purcell

by Sudip Bose | Thursday, November 21, 2019
A Composer in an Antique Land

A Composer in an Antique Land

The legacy of Arthur Farwell

by Sudip Bose | Friday, November 01, 2019
Trees

This Is What Terror Sounds Like

10 pieces to guarantee the Halloween shivers

by Sudip Bose | Thursday, October 24, 2019
Visions of Another Realm

Visions of Another Realm

Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius

by Sudip Bose | Thursday, October 03, 2019
Front porch

Innocence and Loss

Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915

by Sudip Bose | Monday, September 16, 2019
The Classical Romantic

The Classical Romantic

Remembering Joseph Joachim

by Sudip Bose | Thursday, August 15, 2019
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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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