Jane Austen's Playlist
The Mark Steyn Club was born over four years ago in May 2017, and one of the most popular features ever since the earliest days has been our series of monthly audio adventures, Tales for Our Time - and one of the most popular aspects of Tales for Our Time has been the music Mark chooses to accompany his serialization of each story. In the case of our current tale, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, he was spoilt for choice - because, aside from being a great author, Miss Austen was also a pretty fair musician, with albums of favorite songs and piano pieces faithfully copied out in her own neat and precise hand. In this Tales for Our Time special for Steyn Club members, Mark introduces a sample from those albums - a tragic Gluck aria, a folk ... |
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If you missed our Jane Austen music special earlier today, I hope you'll want to give it a listen: it's a grand samplings of the songs and piano pieces Miss Austen played on her pianoforte for an hour before breakfast every morning of her life: A little bit of opera, a lot of sonatas, "Scotch and Irish airs", and more. Meanwhile, welcome to Part Twenty-Two of our current Tale for Our Time - our autumnal diversion by Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey. A few episodes back, the author observed that fashion-conscious ladies were unaware that men never noticed "the texture of their muslin" - and I added my own two ha'porth on the question. David Wilson, a First Weekend Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club from the gruesome Newsom state of ... A Clubman's NotesVaulting to Conclusions
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