The Seed Collector’s Daughter and Other Delights from the Nowruz Journal

Photo by Persis Karim

The Nowruz Journal, a periodical of Persian arts and letters that is a mere two years old, has been named a finalist for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Firecracker Award for Best Debut: Magazine.

Pohjola’s Daughter and Other Wonders of the World

Esa-Pekka Salonen

With thanks to David Nice for identifying this wonderful performance. For more on Sibelius’s Pohjola’s Daughter, click here.

The Bells

While I was familiar with Rachmaninov’s The Bells, I’d never listened to it in a focused way until re-introduced to it by David Nice’s Russian Music course. Here’s an excerpt from David’s program note for a performance of The Bells at the 2014 Proms:

Goodbye to Tolerance

Denise Levertov’s poem, “Goodbye to Tolerance,” begins:

A Trip to Innisfree Garden, with Music by Eve Beglarian

Even Beglarian’s I am lost by streams II (2020)

Eve Beglarian, in “a book of days,” writes of this piece: