Michael Hall’s Music Theatre in Britain 1960-1975 (Boydell Press, 2015).
October 2015 Reading
Ideas for Professional Development
Leadership Musings
What I'm Reading This Month
What I'm Watching This Month
Njal’s Saga: Literature and Leadership
By Stan Pelkey In mid-January, during the last few days my two children were home for winter break, my son and I began to watch the first season of Vikings (Michael Hirst, 2013–2018) on Amazon Prime’s streaming video service. We’d watched The Last Kingdom on BBC America in 2015, and we’re huge fans of Game […]
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What I’ve Been Reading (November)
Cameron Pyke, Benjamin Britten and Russia (Boydell Press, 2016). This exceptionally well-written and well-researched study by Cameron Pyke (Dulwich College and University of London) explores many of the ways Benjamin Britten engaged with Russian composers, musicians, and literature against the backdrop of Anglo-Soviet cultural and political relationships, particularly from the 1930s through the early 1970s. […]
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What I’ve Been Reading (September)
Paul S. Boyer’s American History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012). I have read a number of books from Oxford’s “Very Short Introduction” series, including Kathryn Kalinak’s on Film Music, John Polkinghorne’s on Quantum Theory, and several on world religions and ethics. Paul Boyer’s American History did not disappoint. It is the perfect […]
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