"It's an easy enough job if one has something to say," Paul Bowles remarked in a letter to his mother about his first foray into music criticism. And Paul Bowles, indeed, had plenty to say about music. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself first and foremost as a composer. Drawing together the work he did at the intersection of his two passions and professions, writing and music, this volume collects the music criticism Bowles published between 1935 and 1946 as well as an interview conducted by Irene Herrmann shortly before his death....
"It's an easy enough job if one has something to say," Paul Bowles remarked in a letter to his mother about his first foray into music criticism. And ...
Non, la Suisse n a pas toujours ete un pays tranquille. Non, les Suisses ne sont pas genetiquement programmes pour s entendre. Au XIXe siecle, la volonte de cohesion inherente a la construction de l Etat-nation helvetique a meme suscite d importantes tensions qui ont failli eliminer la Confederation de la carte de l Europe. L examen attentif des clivages religieux, culturels, ideologiques, sociaux ou linguistiques qui scinderent alors la contree permet de restituer la gestion des conflits suisses dans la multiplicite de ses dimensions propres. En decryptant les vertus pacificatrices des...
Non, la Suisse n a pas toujours ete un pays tranquille. Non, les Suisses ne sont pas genetiquement programmes pour s entendre. Au XIXe siecle, la volo...
