Author: Nathan Schiller
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You’ll never believe this is Manhattan: Summer photos of Fort Tryon Park and the Cloisters
My favorite places in New York City are places that don’t look or feel like New York City. They could be adjacent to the icons, a specific bench in Battery Park or Midtown, a vantage point in Brooklyn Bridge Park or Astoria, Queens, just as much as they could be literally on the city’s outermost…
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The book is always better than the movie, but will you read it?
If you were hoping for a breakdown of specific books and movies, my apologies. This post is about the concept. It’s about how and why motion pictures beat written books, but also about why that might not last forever. Photographs changed everything It’s a discussion, and it starts with the invention of the photograph, a…
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The melodies of Schubert pass through Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and Mr Rogers
This is an audio post, so I suggest listening. Mister Rogers made Franz Schubert famous I’ve been playing a lot of Schubert recently. I rarely played him when I was younger. Just the Musical Moment 3, in F-Minor. It’s a popular piece, in no small part because, in the ’80s, André Watts played it on…
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Why I’m starting my blog, which is not about coronavirus, during coronavirus
COVID-19 is born It is quite the time to start a blog. COVID-19 is rampaging through the human race, and I live in New York, the current U.S. epicenter, though I am not near any of the hospitals that have been saturated with COVID-19 patients. I know people who are, and when they walk outside…
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