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Confused but Brave
Confused but Brave is a collection of twelve short stories and seven essays from the life of a man from Chicago, living now in New Orleans and Prague. They tell of his friends and his lovers, his children, his several families, his familiar passions — baseball, music, visual arts, architecture, camping, literature — presented not as memoir but as the intimate, gradual unfolding of a life’s spiral. All the stories are to some extent autobiographical; two are fantasies for little children like those I told my daughter nearly forty years ago. My tone varies from the hopeful energy of “A Family Story” to the despair of “Henry’s Child.” Loss of love is the story in “Ed in Love”; Ed bears it with greater grace than I ever might. Ed is my hero in more ways than one. The essays explore problems in contemporary American life. “Remarkable People” is pure memoir.
Janácek’S Eternal Love
In the last decade of his life, starting when he was a sixty-two-year old curmudgeon in a backwater Slavic country, Czech composer Leo Jancek produced operas and chamber music that would stun the music world, one masterpiece on top of another. In Janceks Eternal Love, author George M. Cummins III presents a biography focusing on the life of Jancek (1854-1928) based on original Czech sources, with special attention to detailed analysis of the last four operas and biographical focus on the composers relationship with his muse, Kamila Stsslov. In 1916, Jancek was known only as a local ethnographer specializing in folk music, but he acquired international fame with the operas and chamber pieces he composed after the age of sixty-two until his death at seventy-four. Cumminswith both a personal and scholarly knowledge of Czech language, history, and culturenarrates a personal biography that includes detailed, insightful descriptions of Janceks compositions.
Mahler Re-Composed
In 2010, the composer Gustav Mahler celebrates his one hundred fiftieth birthday. In Mahler Re-Composed, linguist George Cummins shares a collection of six interrelated essays that provide a fresh perspective on difficult questions familiar to Mahler lovers. Cummins, a teacher of Russian and Czech at Tulane University, brings a uniquely Czech perspective to the study of Mahlers personality and work. In his careful examination of the composers life and work, Cummins begins with an introduction that provides a glimpse into Mahler the Czech and continues with an account of Mahlers conversion from Judaism to Catholicism while making his way to the Vienna Hofoper directorship. Cummins also takes a skeptical look at the legend of Mahler as an impotent, humorless neurotic and recreates the friendship between Strauss and Mahlertwo of the greatest musicians of the early twentieth century.
Studies in Language
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