Wes Phillips

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Rosen/Mozart

In my opinion, Charles Rosen's The Classical Style contained some of the most cogent thinking on Mozart ever written, so when he calls Hermann Abert's W. A. Mozart "the best book on Mozart ever written," I listen.

Royal Society Rocks!

I am in nerd heaven! The Royal Society has just put all of its journals online, going back to volume one in 1665. Read Robert Boyle's "Observables upon a monstrous head," Ben Franklin's kite experiments, Edmund Stone's invention of aspirin, Daines Barrington's observation of a "remarkable young musician" (Mozart), William Henry Fox's first accounts of photography, and Watson and Crick's discovery of DNA.

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