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In The Life & Times of Beethoven, celebrated composer and music historian Professor Robert Greenberg of San Francisco Performances gives you a unique perspective on a musical genius the likes of which the world had never seen before - or since. Blending biography, history, and music appreciation, these 10 lectures portray Beethoven’s extraordinary (and still modern-sounding) music as a direct outgrowth of his life, environment, and interior emotional landscape.

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Until the 20th century, art history was, in the main, written by white, western men who tended to write about other white, western men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet, they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws to religion and the pressures of family and public disapproval. Feminism has shaken up the story of art and, for the first time, cast light on the often-brilliant work by women artists who were often ignored, patronised or marginalised.

Here was a strange mirror indeed! It reflected an image all right, but not an image from the same era in history! - Summary by Amazing Stories, December 1942

Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, née Barstow was a United States poet and novelist. She is most widely known today as the author of The Morgesons (1862), her first of three novels. Her other two novels are Two Men (1865) and Temple House (1867). Stoddard was also a prolific writer of short stories, children's tales, poems, essays, travel writing, and journalism pieces. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Welcome to Mirror Mirror with Amy Chang, where we dive deep into the cutting-edge science of beauty and the complex psychological and cultural reasons behind why we pursue it. Join me for honest, insightful conversations where science meets self-discovery. Together, we’ll ask the important questions—What does it really mean to be beautiful? How does science influence our ideals? And how can we cultivate authentic self-acceptance from the inside out? New episodes Tuesdays and Fridays.

"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages, the growing sense of solitude, the close dependence upon the very forces that, friendly to-day, without changing their nature, by the mere putting forth of their might, become dangerous to-morrow, make for that sense of fellowship which modern seamen, good men as they are, cannot hope to know." In this volume of essays, more than in any other single work, we get to see clearly just what Joseph Conrad's years working on sail-powered ships meant to him — and ...

"Mirrors of Moscow" by Louise Bryant is a collection of journalistic sketches and profiles that examines the political and social atmosphere of revolutionary Russia. Published in 1923, the book provides an insightful, though subjective, portrayal of the key figures and events that shaped Soviet Russia in the aftermath of the 1917 Revolution. These figures includes Lenin, his subordinates, Jacob Peters, Lunacharsky, Kalinin, Kollontai, Trotsky, and Tchicherin, among others. Summary by Realfunghi

In a house designed for manipulation, paranoia, and power plays, sixteen strangers are cut off from the outside world—watched every second by cameras, judged by millions. Welcome to Big Brother. A show ahead of its time, it was once dismissed as fluff television. Now this voyeuristic reality show has quietly become a cultural juggernaut. But what are the costs of turning human lives into entertainment? What kind of psychological toll does it take to be put in isolation, under constant surveillance, in a perpetual state of suspicion? 

"Welcome to Rockwell Land," writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this spirited and authoritative biography of the painter who provided 20th-century America with a defining image of itself. As the star illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, Norman Rockwell mingled fact and fiction in paintings that reflected the we-the-people, communitarian ideals of American democracy. But who was this man who served as our unofficial "artist in chief" and bolstered our country's national identity?

In Music as a Mirror of History, Great Courses favorite Professor Greenberg of San Francisco Performances returns with a fascinating and provocative premise: Despite the abstractness and the universality of music - and our habit of listening to it divorced from any historical context - music is a mirror of the historical setting in which it was created. Music carries a rich spectrum of social, cultural, historical, and philosophical information, all grounded in the life and experience of the composer.

Welcome to mirror:mirror Cinema ClubEvery other Thursday, we watch a film and debrief together.How to join the club. It’s like a book club - but easier.Know what film we are watching next by following us on TikTok.Watch the film in your own time, or at the agreed time/date with the club.Share your thoughts or react to our prompts with other club members - in the comments on TikTok.Tune in to the mirror:mirror podcast the next day, to hear our thoughts.We have two formats. Icons-only: Topical series.We curate a list of must-see films, on a topic that we want to know more about.Watch...

Hello! Welcome to The Mirror Project, hosted by Christine & Alexandra, a podcast focused on sparking curiosity through honest and inquisitive conversations. Join us as we laugh, cry, and sometimes scream in our bold quest to question everything.

What if you could go back in time and fix a movie? Or pitch a new film in a franchise? We aren't time travelers or movie producers, but that's what we do every week. Join us in this Mirror Movie Universe, where anything is possible! We're just two brothers who love film, and having fun. Please don't take this too seriously. We don't.

Mirror Theatre Is a Full Time Theatre Research And Promotion Organization In Jharsuguda District Of Odisha. It Was Established In 1993 With The Primary Mission To Bring a Change In the Social, Cultural And Intellectual Life of People In Odisha. The Group Has More Than 300 Hundred Shows Of 26 Full Length And 13 Children Plays To Its Credit And Has Participated In Various Theatre Festival Across India. The Group Is Now Equipped With an Open Air Stage, a Library, And a Recourse Centre, And Operates a Children, And Operates a Children's Theatre Club. Mirror Theatre Regularly Organizes Theatre ...

This is my podcast where I read (and sometimes talk about) the fanfiction of Draco Malfoy and The Mirror of Ecidyrue by Starbrigid. I do not own the rights to the series or any related properties. This is simply a podcast of me performing the series as an Audiobook. The coverart is by garforprongs

Explore the depths of self-reflection in Mirror of the Sea, a captivating collection of autobiographical essays penned between 1904 and 1906. Originally published in various magazines, these insightful writings invite readers on a personal journey through the authors experiences and contemplations.

Reflective and expansive, Mirror in the Sky situates Stevie Nicks as one of the finest songwriters of the twentieth century. This biography from distinguished music historian Simon Morrison examines Nicks as a singer and songwriter before and beyond her career with Fleetwood Mac, from the Arizona landscape of her childhood to the strobe-lit Night of 1000 Stevies celebrations.

Black Mirror - the Emmy-winning Netflix series that holds up a dark, digital mirror of speculative technologies to modern society-shows us a high-tech world where it is all too easy to fall victim to ever-evolving forms of social control. In Black Mirror and Philosophy, original essays written by a diverse group of scholars invite you to peer into the void and explore the philosophical, ethical, and existential dimensions of Charlie Brooker's sinister stories. 

Movies in the Mirror is a show for everyone with nostalgic memories of cinema. In each episode, friends and cousins Tom and Arthur Browne revisit a film they haven’t seen for many years and see how it lives up to their recollections. Will they be charmed, disappointed or simply annoyed?