TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Foreword 1
Introduction 3
ESSAYS 23
1. On the Power, Powerlessness and 25 Omnipotence of Language: From Oral Culture through Written Culture to Media Domination
2. Language and Cultural Change 53
3. The Loquacious Turn or the 73 Importance of Being Secondary
4. Persuasiveness-Loquacity- 85 Mendacity: Dilemmas in Linguistic Communication in the Media-Dominated Age
5. Angkarn Our Contemporary 123
6. Reading Thutiyawiset in 2014 151 (B.E. 2557)
http://d-nb.info/1070239461 7. Music-Making versus the 175 Commodification of Music: A Call to Enlightened Amateurs
8. Transcending the Bonds of Time 209 and Place: Raj Loesuang and the Schoolboy Somboon Hormtientong
9. The Ascent to Prehistory: A Thai 221 Case Study
10. Caught in Winds of Change: The 265 Plight of Criticism Today
11. Towards an Aesthetics of Research 313
12. Kurt Wais: A Centenary Appraisal 333
13. Why Germany? 403
14. From Selfless Giving to 419 Commodification: The Dilemma of Higher Education
II REVIEWS 427
Music 429
15. An Experience of a Lifetime 431 16. Continuity Is the Key to Success: 435 BSO at 30
17. They Rose to the Occasion: The 440 Bangkok Pro Musica Orchestra's Concerts in London and Berlin
18. The School ofNopanand: An 448 Academy outside Academia?
19. The Siam Society Transforming 453 Itself into a Society for Music Lovers
20. Music for the Initiated: Recital 457 "The Art of Piano Transcription" by Jayanat Wisaijorn
21. The Concocted Bollywood Saga: 460 The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on Sanamluang
22. The Concertgebouw Is the Real 465 Thing
23. An American in Berlin Doing An 469 American in Paris
24. Wait for the "Encore". It's Often 474 the Best the Orchestra Can Give
25. An Incredible Lineage: From 480 Vienna to New York over One and a Half Centuries 26. The Stand-in Who Stole the Show 486 (Part I)
27. At Several Removes from South 492 Carolina: Porgy and Bess in Berlin
28. Berlin: The Capital of Music? 497
29. Should There Be an Age Limit for 500 Musical Marathons?
30. Who Is Going to Tell Gidon 506 Kremer Not to Retire Too Soon?
31. The Plight of Chamber Music: 513 Even Berlin Has Problems
32. The Death of an Orchestra: The 521 Concertgebouw Must Not Die
33. The Stand-in Who Stole the Show 527 (Part II): When a New Yorker Conquered Leipzig and Then Berlin
34. The Most European of American 536 Orchestras: The Cleveland Pays Tribute to Young Germany
35. The Remedy Was Most Effective: 545 John Eliot Gardiner Made the London Symphony Play Standing Up 36. I Have Heard All This Before: 556 Schumann and Brahms by Simon Rattle & Co.
Theatre and Opera 565
37. Theatre of Commitment: On the 567 Singaporean Opera Fences
38. The Burden of History: Wozzeck in 576 Berlin
39. Othello at Democrazy Theatre: Or 582 the Pitfall of Realism
Visual Arts 585
40. Random Thoughts on Montien 587 Boonma and the Archival Approach to His Life and Work
Acknowledgements 596
List of Previous Appearances 599