Mein Lebenslauf, an autobiographical cantata by Georg Schönberg with text by himself , was and remains an important linguistic, cultural, and historical document as well as a work of art.

Georg Schönberg (1906-74) was the son of renowned composer Arnold Schönberg by his first wife, Mathilde Zemlinsky, sister of his good friend Alexander Ze…[Read more]

I’ve developed a new different way of getting a class discussion going about certain difficult poems.   I call it a “slide-choreography.”  Have a look-listen and see what you think.  There is no charge for using one or more of these; you can do so as many times as  you please:

https://vimeo.com/16923615 (Hart Crane’s “Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge”…[Read more]