#classics

psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com

https://hcommons.social/@paregorios/112576842630695795 paregorios@hcommons.social - Free summer training sessions on using the #PleiadesGazetteer of ancient places are now open for registration at https://pleiades.stoa.org/events

There are two classes, each offered three times over the course of the summer:

  • Finding and Using: Learn how the gazetteer is organized, what it contains, and how to search and use its contents.

  • Adding and Changing: Learn how to make additions, corrections, and improvements to the content of the gazetteer.

Each course is two hours long and will be delivered live and interactively via Zoom.

Boosts appreciated!

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #classics #DH #gazetteers #LAWDI #LOD

yew@diasp.eu

Lugansky - Rachmaninoff, Étude-Tableau, Appassionato (Op. 39, No. 5)

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Étude-Tableau, Op. 39 (1916-1917)
No. 5 in E♭ minor. Appassionato
Nikolai Lugansky, 2020
St. Petersburg Philharmonia

Études-Tableaux, Op. 33 + Op. 39 https://youtu.be/KGniWXjsdu4

“The Études-tableaux op. 39 (1916) is the last Rachmaninov's work written in Russia, The whole cycle, conceived on a larger scale than op. 33, was performed for the first time in February 1917, the last days of the Russian empire. The coming events cast their sinister shadows over this composition. Eight pieces of nine are written in minor. […]

Étude-tableau No. 5 in E flat minor was written last and became probably the most popular piece in the whole cycle. Inspired poem of rare harmonic beauty recreated the epic living image of Russia in her tragic grandeur. The excitement mounting throughout the piece is summarized in the grandiose culmination of the reprise, after which the tension subsides, and everything dissolves in the quiet of the coda.”

— Lugansky

#SergeiRachmaninoff #NikolaiLugansky #classics #music

kennychaffin@diasp.org

Six Classic Books That Live Up to Their Reputation

TLDR (or site blocked) version:

The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
Almanac of the Dead, by Leslie Marmon Silko
Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/12/long-classic-book-recommendations-moby-dick/672427/

#writing #books #authors #classics #literature

escheche@diasp.org