A song in our hearts
It’s cold outside, and the pandemic still rages. You may not feel like singing a happy tune. But if you’re a Janeite, someone else is...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 30, 2019
Model city
Now this is a community event I can get behind. Over the weekend of January 10-12, the city of Modesto in California’s Central Valley is...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 7, 2019
The sound of (Austen) music
Music plays intermittent cameo roles in Jane Austen’s novels: think of Mary Bennet delighting us long enough in Pride and Prejudice, or...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 19, 2018
A really accomplished young computer
Jane Austen’s novels have provided the inspiration for any number of musical treatments, from operas and a classical instrumental suite...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 4, 2018
Emma, live and on film
Musical theater is an expensive art form, and fans on a budget – or those who live far from the major cities where original productions...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 16, 2018
Austen karaoke
Recently – OK, it was two weeks ago – I found occasion to mention an old journalists’ joke: that three examples of a phenomenon...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 2, 2018
Trend-spotting
We journalists like to joke that once you have three examples of something – avocado toast! Suburban sex-toy parties! -- you can write a...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 16, 2018
Emma, the (latest) musical
Good news for those of us who can never get enough Jane Austen adaptations: Apparently, theater professionals in London and New York are...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 10, 2016
Austen tunes
We’ve had Jane Austen musicals, Jane Austen operas, and databases of the music that Jane Austen herself played. And now comes word that a...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 27, 2016
Austen's simple old songs
Like her characters Marianne Dashwood and Jane Fairfax, Jane Austen was, we are told, a committed amateur pianist. “In her youth she had...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 17, 2016
Setting Mansfield Park to music
The ordinary happiness and quiet heartbreak of Jane Austen's novels hardly seem to fit the melodramatic template of so many grand operas,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 19, 2015
Austen-era keyboarding
It’s probably impossible for us twenty-first-century folk, with our high-tech communications, advanced medical care and expansive notions...
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