November 14, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events"Lisztomania" hits Austin Long before Beatlemania, mid-nineteenth-century European audiences went wild for Franz Liszt, the Hungarian pianist/composer with shoulder-length hair. Women fought over his broken piano strings and collected his coffee dregs in glass vials. One woman retrieved Liszt’s discarded cigar stump from a gutter and encased it in a diamond-studded locket monogrammed… read more
October 13, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingTwo Texas sorority sisters inspire Graham Greene and John Sutro to establish Anglo-Texan Society On a trip to Edinburgh in the summer of 1953, novelist Graham Greene and producer John Sutro met Margy Crosby Leifeste and Mary Alexander Sherwood, roommates and Pi Phi sorority sisters who had recently graduated from The University of Texas at Austin. Charmed by the young women, Greene and Sutro… read more
September 20, 2011, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsCommentary Magazine Archive Donated to Ransom Center Commentary magazine has donated its archive to the Ransom Center. Founded in November 1945, just months after World War II, Commentary magazine was established to reconnect assimilated American Jews and Jewish intellectuals with the broader Jewish community and to bring the ideas of young Jewish intellectuals to a wider audience.… read more
