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Medical trivia #4: Billroth and Brahms

Using language to convey the magic of Brahms would be like using a wooden classroom ruler to measure the speed of light. … Continue Reading →

Sweet Emma

The mostly unadorned, dark room slopes down from back to front. There’s room for perhaps 200 people but, as I soon learned, most stand and only about twenty people get to sit in the front, on the floor, on scattered… Continue Reading →

February 10, 2019 6

Peter, Paul and Mary

Last week, my wife, Kate, and I went to hear a concert given by Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey. The night of February 17 was miserable because of a ferocious, record-breaking rainstorm and high winds. We started out for… Continue Reading →

February 28, 2017 9

How NOT to learn about grand opera and other tales …

1939 was quite a year in the history of the world. World War II began when Germany attacked Poland. The Spanish Civil War ended as Franco conquered Madrid. Albert Einstein wrote to President Roosevelt urging him to build an atomic… Continue Reading →

December 31, 2014 16

Medicine, molecules and music: Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) – surgeon, scientist, composer, educator, women’s rights advocate, Broadway award winner

A 1951 stamp from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (CCCP in Russian, USSR in English) bears the images of five great Russian composers: Mikhail Glinka (top left), Peter Ilyitch Tchaikowsky (top right), Modest Moussorgsky (bottom left), Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakoff (bottom… Continue Reading →

September 26, 2014 8

Musing of a Contemporary Pathologist

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Medical trivia #4: Billroth and Brahms

Sweet Emma

Peter, Paul and Mary

How NOT to learn about grand opera and other tales …

Medicine, molecules and music: Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) – surgeon, scientist, composer, educator, women’s rights advocate, Broadway award winner

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