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2 weeks ago | 
chroniclesmagazine.org | Paul du Quenoy
President Trump inaugurated his personal chairmanship of Washington, D.C.’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by attending a performance of Les Misérables this week. While he was there, I hope he considered looking to Italy for ways to further his administration’s mission to bring political balance to America’s performing arts.
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2 weeks ago | 
newcriterion.com | Paul du Quenoy |Douglas Murray |Hilton Kramer |Robert Erickson
Rare is the opera that continues to be performed in two languages, but the exigencies of the Paris Opera have imprinted that legacy on a handful of works. Many are mid-nineteenth-century Italian stalwarts that were introduced in French to conquer what Walter Benjamin identified as “the capital of the nineteenth century.”We normally call Giuseppe Verdi’s great opera of religion and power Don Carlo, without the s. But with the added letter, the connoisseur knows he is getting the French version.
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3 weeks ago | 
newcriterion.com | Paul du Quenoy |Douglas Murray |Hilton Kramer |Robert Erickson
Palm Beach slows down after Easter, with traffic notably easing up through the month of May as the largely seasonal community packs up for Europe or the Hamptons. That, however, was no stumbling block for the Palm Beach Symphony, which presented an extra late-season “encore” program that sold out, defying all seasonal demographic trends.
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3 weeks ago | 
chroniclesmagazine.org | Paul du Quenoy
Cheers rang out from Key West to Pensacola and around the nation Tuesday when the Florida state university system’s Board of Governors voted 10-6 to reject former University of Michigan president and DEI fanatic Santa J. Ono’s candidacy for the presidency of the University of Florida. Ono, who curiously was the only finalist advanced by the search committee for the job, came with their unanimous recommendation on May 4 and was unanimously approved by the university’s Board of Trustees on May 27.
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3 weeks ago | 
newsmax.com | Paul du Quenoy
Kudos to the Sunshine State for Inflicting Major DEI Defeat Cheers rang out from Key West to Pensacola, and nationally, on Tuesday, when it was announced that the Florida State University System’s Board of Governors voted 10-6 to reject former University of Michigan president and DEI fanatic Santa J. Ono’s candidacy for the presidency of the University of Florida.
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3 weeks ago | 
newsmax.com | Paul du Quenoy
Is Florida still where "Woke" goes to die? Ask the seemingly cowardly inhabiting the University of Florida’s Board of Trustees, the answer appears to be a resounding "No!"On Tuesday, the woke-wavering trustees of our free state’s flagship public university unanimously voted to confirm Santa J. Ono, until recently the DEI (Diversity, equity, and Inclusion)-crazed president of the University of Michigan, as UF’s next president.
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4 weeks ago | 
chroniclesmagazine.org | Paul du Quenoy
WarfareDirected and written by Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland ◆ Produced by DNA Films ◆ Distributed by A24“This film uses only their memories,” announces a title card preceding Ray Mendoza’s and Alex Garland’s searingly realistic 95-minute depiction of live combat during the Iraq War. Their new film follows Navy SEAL platoon Alpha One, a unit of SEAL Team 5, which deployed on Nov. 19, 2006, to provide cover for U.S. Marines operating in Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province.
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4 weeks ago | 
newcriterion.com | Paul du Quenoy |Robert Erickson |Andrew Shea |Suzanna Murawski
The San Franciso Symphony’s season is ending better than it started, though the conclusion is bittersweet with the all-too-soon departure of its music director, Esa-Pekka Salonen, the award-winning Finnish conductor and composer who has led the orchestra since 2020.
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1 month ago | 
chroniclesmagazine.org | Paul du Quenoy
Is Florida still where woke goes to die? If you ask the craven cowards who inhabit the University of Florida’s Board of Trustees, the answer appears to be a resounding “No.” On Tuesday, the woke-wavering trustees of Florida’s flagship public university unanimously voted to confirm Santa J. Ono, until recently the DEI-crazed president of the University of Michigan, as UF’s next president.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Paul du Quenoy
On Tuesday, the trustees of the University of Florida, the flagship public university of the state where Governor Ron DeSantis had claimed “woke goes to die”, stabbed voters firmly in the back. They unanimously voted to confirm Santa J Ono, until recently president of the University of Michigan, as the next president of their institution. Until only recently, Ono was a public supporter of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), as well as other radical Left shibboleths.
