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A Drunkard cannot meet a Cork / Without a Revery— And so encountering a Fly / This January Day Jamaicas of Remembrance stir / That send me reeling in. EMILY DICKINSON NEW YEAR S DAY 1660 Samuel Pepys records the first entry in his Diary: "This morning (we lying lately in the garret) I rose,...

"PreludeWhat was it like to be present when Liszt or Paderewski performed?How strange did the avant-garde music of Wagner and Berlioz sound to the ears of a contemporary audience? What was the atmosphere of the eighteenth-century theatre? These and hundreds of similar questions arise as we listen...

Prologue For the last 2,500 years we have been accumulating reports of creatures which do not conform to any of our convenient zoological classifications, but which may loosely be called 'wildmen'. Initially, such reports describe only sightings, and are difficult to distinguish from myths,...

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A Drunkard cannot meet a Cork / Without a RevcryAnd so encountering a Fly / This January Day Jamaicas of Remembrance stir / That send me reeling in.EMILY DICKINSONnew year s day1660 Samuel Pepys records the first entry in his Diary: "This morning (we lying lately in the garret) I rose, put on my...

"Treludehat was it like to be present when Liszt or Paderewski performed?How strange did the avant-garde music of Wagner and Berlioz sound to the ears of a contemporary audience? What was the atmosphere of the eighteenth-century theatre? These and hundreds of similar questions arise as we listen to...