It comes as a surprise to me that in two years of this weekly newsletter I have not yet written anything about music, especially given how deeply important both listening to music and playing it have been in my life. In some ways, music has meant as much to me as literature. On a more sophisticated level, the same was true of my mentor, Northrop Frye, a classically trained amateur pianist whose musical sensibility profoundly influenced his theory of literature. In
August 25, 2023
August 25, 2023
August 25, 2023
It comes as a surprise to me that in two years of this weekly newsletter I have not yet written anything about music, especially given how deeply important both listening to music and playing it have been in my life. In some ways, music has meant as much to me as literature. On a more sophisticated level, the same was true of my mentor, Northrop Frye, a classically trained amateur pianist whose musical sensibility profoundly influenced his theory of literature. In