Month: January 2011
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The new and improved AP test
A New York Times article today reminded me of a time when the AP was more than a national news wire service to me. The advanced placement test was one of the greatest banes of my high school existence, second only to the college application process. From what I remember, the entire experience, which I…
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Musings on music and criticism
“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of…
Jill Kimball 