Academica Press Through the Years With Prince Charming: The Collected Music Criticism of Paul Du Quenoy, 2010-2020

The past decade has overflowed in a raging stream of contradictions. Old certainties have yielded to relentless insecurity over a time when much of the human experience got immeasurably better even as many things only ever seemed to get worse. As Paul du Quenoy's globetrotting criticism reveals, the arts were in a ferment that matched profound and yet totally unpredicted social and political transformations. Balanced, sometimes precariously, against the demands of an absurd and increasingly superfluous academic career, du Quenoy spent the 2010s seeking enlightenment, inspiration, and, above all, diversion, in total works of art all over the world, ranging from the traditional cultural capitals to humbler and more remote surroundings. Peering through the prism of performance, Through the Years With Prince Charming offers a unique bird's eye view of art and life in a changing world. About the Author Paul du Quenoy is a private investor and critic. A trained historian, he received a Ph.D. from Georgetown University and has taught history, humanities, and fine arts at a number of institutions in the United States and abroad. His books include Stage Fright: Politics and the Performing Arts in Late Imperial Russia (2009), Wagner and the French Muse: Music, Society, and Nation in Modern France (2011), Alexander Serov and the Birth of the Russian Modern (2016), and Through the Years with Prince Charming: The Collected Music Criticism of Paul du Quenoy, 2010-2020 (2021). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Spectator, The New Criterion, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Critic, The Washington Times, Musical America, and numerous other publications.