Neil Kurtzman

Edward Chancellor’s book , subtitled The Real Story of interest, starts with Hammurabi and continues to the present. He shows that interest is older than money and that the compulsion of govern...

https://medicine-opera.com/2023/01/the-price-of-time-book-review/

The life of Lina Bruna Rasa (1907-84) is one of opera’s saddest tales. A phenom, she made her debut in 1925 at age 18. Her last performance was in 1942 when she was 34. She was one year younger...

https://medicine-opera.com/2023/01/lina-bruna-rasa/

At the start of every year the American Cancer Society issues the latest cancer statistics. This year the data were released in two publications, both of which are found at the end of this articl...

https://medicine-opera.com/2023/01/cancer-statistics-2023/

Umberto Giordano’s minor league opera Fedora was brought back to the Met after an absence of 25 years. The main reason for its reappearance, as far as I could, tell was to add novelty without t...

https://medicine-opera.com/2023/01/fedora-in-hd/

Verdi’s requiem mass written to commemorate the first year anniversary of the death of the novelist Alessandro Manzoni is one of the peaks of Western Civilization. The video below was made more...

https://medicine-opera.com/2023/01/verdi-requiem-1982-performance/

Effect of Prescriber Notifications of Patient’s Fatal Overdose on Opioid Prescribing at 4 to 12 Months is the title of a short paper on the JAMA Open Network. It describes what happens when a p...

https://medicine-opera.com/2023/01/prescription-opioids-and-death/

Opera was not Beethoven’s forte. He devoted a decade (1804-14) to tinkering with his only opera – Fidelio. Even its name changed. It was initially called Leonore; she’s the opera’s heroin...

https://medicine-opera.com/2023/01/leonore-overture-3/

Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin collapsed last night after making a tackle during the Monday night football game. He is said to have suffered a cardiac arrest and is hospitalized in cri...

https://medicine-opera.com/2023/01/damar-hamlin-and-commotio-cordis/

If you do a search for universal genius a variety of definitions will appear. Often they equate the term with polymath. Polymaths are quite numerous, though a very small proportion of the total p...

https://medicine-opera.com/2022/12/universal-genius/

Workers, Internal Memos Reveal Why Southwest Melted Down During Cold Snap The above headline conveys the message, but things do not melt down during a cold snap, they freeze. Writing headlines is...

https://medicine-opera.com/2022/12/headline-of-the-moment/