George Washington and the “Gift of Silence”
George Washington, the great actor, was playing his part in a great drama, not just for Americans...
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Posted by Stephen M. Klugewicz | Feb 21, 2024 | The Imaginative Conservative |
George Washington, the great actor, was playing his part in a great drama, not just for Americans...
Read MorePosted by Stephen M. Klugewicz | Feb 14, 2024 | The Imaginative Conservative |
Skip to content Gil Meche His career stats indicate that he was a mediocre baseball pitcher—perhaps the epitome of mediocrity: 84 wins; 83 losses; a 4.49 Earned Run Average; a Walks-plus-Hits-to-Innings-Pitched ratio of 1.42....
Read MorePosted by Stephen M. Klugewicz | Feb 7, 2024 | The Imaginative Conservative |
Skip to content M*A*S*H’s Dr. Winchester and the Chinese prisoners in the American camp find a common language in a single piece of music, written a century-and-a-half before: Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet. The final episode of the...
Read MorePosted by Stephen M. Klugewicz | Dec 21, 2023 | The Imaginative Conservative |
Skip to content On December 22, 1808, Ludwig van Beethoven—by then an established composer and a renowned piano virtuoso—conducted a concert of his own works, featuring himself also as pianist, at the Theater an der Wien in...
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Skip to content When Wolfgang Mozart died on December 5, 1791, fellow composer Joseph Haydn was “quite beside [himself] over his death,” and the older composer soon paid a veiled tribute to his young friend in the form of a...
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