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THE THEFT OUTRIGHT*
by Eugene Mahon. Click to play the arr. Otto-Werner Mueller: Star-Spangled Banner
Bibliography and External Links
- Eugene Mahon M.D., is a Training and Supervising psychoanalyst at Columbia Psychoanalytic. His articles have been published widely in major psychoanalytic journals. His books include A Psychoanalytic Odyssey: Painted Guinea Pigs, Dreams, and Other Realities (Karnac, 2014), Rensel the Redbit: A Psychoanalytic Fairy Tale (Karnac,2015) and a volume of poetry, Bone Shop of the Heart (IPBooks, 2017). Email: ejmahon8@gmail.com
- Otto-Werner Mueller (1926-2016). Professor of conducting at the Curtis Institute of Music, Julliard School of Music, and Yale School of Music. Music director of the Yale Philharmonic.
- Eugene Mahon was born in Ireland and emigrated to the US in 1964. Otto-Werner Mueller was born in Germany and emigrated, by way of Canada, to the US in 1967.
- *The title is a bitterly ironic allusion to Robert Frost’s great poem The Gift Outright, which the aged poet read at the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1960.
- Photo by Annie Spratt.
- Also read: The President Tweets like a Bird
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