Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

 

Sunday reading: In the Review’s April 7 issue, Denis Donoghue considers the Easter Rising and its leaders, and Robert Winter reviews Charles Rosen’s recording career. On the NYR Daily, Jenny Uglow looks at Francis Towne’s paintings of Rome and Joost Hiltermann interviews Didier Leroy about Belgium’s jihadists.  Sponsored by Pantheon

 

‘A Terrible Beauty Is Born’ Denis Donoghue The proclamation urged the Irish nation to “prove itself worthy of the august destiny to which it is called.” The date, Easter 1916, was carefully chosen.

 

Versatile, Fearless Charles Rosen​ Robert Winter He championed precisely the works feared most by pianists.​ We shall neither see nor hear the likes of him again soon.

Rome: Behind the Ruins Jenny Uglow Francis Towne’s haunting watercolors

 

Why Belgium? Joost Hiltermann and Didier Leroy Why has the country become such a focus of European jihad?​

 

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