About Marcia Christoff Reina

Marcia Christoff Reina is the editor of a print magazine on Old Masters painting and an author. She lives in Milan and Washington, D.C.

The Forest and the ‘Faustian’ Soul

By |2020-08-25T16:03:06-05:00January 24th, 2016|Categories: Art, Culture, Featured, History, Marcia Christoff Reina, Music, Timeless Essays|

It has been said that the Germanic soul and the forest are one and the same thing. A sense of “Being” is what the Forest is all about to the Faustian: the Mystery that inspires imagination—the most intense Reality that there is. “Deep roots are untouched by frost.” —J.R.R Tolkien It has been said that [...]

“Grosse Pointe”

By |2022-06-30T16:10:38-05:00November 22nd, 2015|Categories: Marcia Christoff Reina, Poetry|

For my brother Rather, I would have liked that we had been golden siblings, arm-in-arm along the lakeshore, or hair flying on white bicycles, past the haunted mansions, past the boat clubs and peaks of clean sail fluttering on blue sheets of broken diamonds. No words are needed when there is much to say, but [...]

The Shostakovich Century

By |2022-06-30T14:24:49-05:00April 2nd, 2015|Categories: Europe, Featured, History, Marcia Christoff Reina, Music, Russia, War|

In the music of Shostakovich, the two sides of the twentieth century are revealed—the absurd and the tragic. It is impossible to tell in his works whether the absurd is the tragic or the tragic is the absurd, just as the events of The Century made it impossible to distinguish between the two. Whatever hope [...]

“In Darkest Austria”

By |2022-06-30T14:35:57-05:00January 28th, 2015|Categories: Marcia Christoff Reina, Poetry|

—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.          —T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land When you were [...]

When Johnny Comes Marching Home

By |2022-06-30T15:37:36-05:00September 9th, 2014|Categories: Government, History, Marcia Christoff Reina|

It may be the case of the US of A that the rescue of the country from its subversive, nation-hating, professional patriots will require, in effect, anti-American measures that ultimately and most profoundly express the very soul of America at its best, once more recovered and rejuvenated. “Listen to me, Mr. Ambassador, F— your parliament [...]

The Late, Great Viennese Nobleman: A Tribute

By |2022-06-30T15:45:59-05:00July 31st, 2014|Categories: Education, Marcia Christoff Reina|

If, on your next trip to Vienna, you set out to understand the personality of this lovely world-capital-that-is-not-a-city, there are three must-sees during your time here. If, however, you are lucky enough during your visit to meet a member of Vienna’s high aristocracy, you will find all these elements personified in a predictably off-beat, refreshingly [...]

The Forest and the ‘Faustian’ Soul

By |2022-06-30T14:51:54-05:00June 13th, 2014|Categories: Art, History, Literature, Marcia Christoff Reina, Music|

It has been said that the Germanic soul and the forest are one in the same thing— the mythological Forest that contrasts the splendid isolation of man in his solitude against the infinity of nature. Deep roots are untouched by frost. —J.R.R Tolkien It has been said that the Germanic soul and the forest are [...]

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