Day: August 13, 2003

Shostakovitch’s ‘War Symphonies’: film review

Shostakovitch’s ‘War Symphonies’: film review

August 13, 2003

(credit: Andrzej Dudzinski/NYT) This is a remarkable film on the War Symphonies of Shostakovitch & covers roughly...

Bush to Liberia: ‘We’d Like to Help, Really We Would but…’

Bush to Liberia: ‘We’d Like to Help, Really We Would but…’

August 13, 2003

George Bush’s response to the Liberia bloodbath is morally bankrupt and reprehensible. Thousands of innocent Liberian civilians...