Topic: Bernard Williams
Spectator, The London | 2008-11-06 00:54:07
ON OPERA by Bernard Williams Yale,
Opera has fallen out of fashion as a recreation of our humanist intellectuals. Even when I was an undergraduate in the mid1970s, the tide was beginning to turn in favour of the vacuous verbiage of Bob Dylan, whose soi-disant genius was being forcefully sponsored by Christopher Ricks.
Nowadays, I imagine high-table chat is more ...
