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Blog Name:	Deceptively Simple
Url:	http://www.deceptively-simple.com/
Language:	English
Topics:	classical music, books, culture
Description:	Music and culture from Marc Geelhoed in Chicago
Popularity:	16 Followers

More Than You Probably Wanted to Know

First in a series When I was 12 going on 13, and newly in the sixth grade at Delta Middle School, I had an English teacher by the name of Eileen Wilcox. She had the distinction of teaching Honors English (did we call it Challenge English?), and was one of those irrationally exuberant people who stick out like Roman candles in the non-explosive Midwest. Unmarried (odd enough for a teacher in that area), she insisted on being called “Miss Wilcox;” had her hair teased out several inches from her head; and enjoyed showing up to teach a group of teenagers with horMONES raGING in leather mini-skirts. “If I had legs like hers, I’d wear leather mini-skir

Unwritten Works We Wish Had Been Written

The Ring Cycle as Imagined by Felix Mendelssohn: “My best thanks also for your last letter. Do you know, I think your suggestion as to the Nibelungen most luminous? It has been constantly in my head ever since, and I mean to employ my first leisure day in reading over the poem, for I have forgotten the details and can only recall the general colouring and outlines which seem to me gloriously dramatic. Will you kindly communicate to me your specific ideas on this subject? The poem is evidently more present to your memory than to mine. I scarcely remember what your allusion means as to the sinking into the Rhine. Can you point out to me the various passage

Hello?

And….we’re back. Team DecSimp moved from the South Side to the Near Northwest Side, ran the Chicago Marathon, and is now engaged in keeping a classical record label moving forward, because, much in the manner of a shark, if it isn’t moving forward, it is dead and the carcass is spending money for no good reason. Riccardo Muti laid

De Niese de bees knees

Danielle de Niese’s new Mozart album is out now, and received a big plug from the New York Times Magazine today, and therefore needs no further boost from me. But, it’s a splendid album of opera and concert arias, and you get to hear her with Bryn Terfel and the authoritative Sir Charles Mackerras and the Orchestra of th

Code name

Names exist, partially, to remove doubt. We put them on things to eliminate what they are not as much as to say what they are. “What is [this]?” “It is [that].” Names also create attachments between the person, or people, who did the naming and the thing that’s been named; if you find a stray animal, the last thing you should do if you have no intention of keeping it is to give it a name. A name is a tie that binds. Once that attachment is in place, and we agree on what a thing is named, the name begins to settle in and take root, becoming nice and comfortable and part of the mental furniture and clutter that we carry around with us. But what happens

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