Welcome to the 3rd qualifying round of Favorite Works of the 1800's. We collected 300 compositions broken down into 15 rounds, each having 20 works. For each round, the 4 works with the highest scores will advance to the Semi-Finals. Rules of the Road: 1. You may vote once daily. 2. When you...

Feline supremacy does seem to be rampant here but let's see what the poll tells us.

Welcome to the final of the "Concertante 1972-2021" game. We nominated 176 works, which were first voted on in eleven preliminary rounds, reducing the field to 48. Then there were three semi-finals, and now the final. Selections and line-ups can be found here. The rules: 1) you may vote once...

Back in 2016, we had a wonderful exchange of views on the nature of profundity in the arts. The whole objectivist/subjectivist thang was aired as part of the discussion, as was the linked Understanding versus Appreciating a work. These topics have a life of their own, but I enjoyed this thread...

Raven Chacon just won the Pulitzer Prize for his Voiceless Mass. Any thoughts?