Category: Music
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Silence, Breaking (VAN)
On knowing and deciding not to know about James Levine, and how a cult of interpretive genius enabled abuse. Dieser Aufsatz wurde auch in deutscher Sprache veröffentlicht.
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Beckmesser’s Dream (VAN)
An essay about Barrie Kosky’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” at the Bayreuth Festival for this terrifyingly intelligent magazine about classical music. Read it here.
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A Queer Ear: Paul Bowles’ “Music of Morocco” (Pelican Bomb)
How Paul Bowles’ recordings of traditional Moroccan music might have served an agenda of resistance. Three Americans—a woman, her husband, and his friend—sit in a café in Morocco a few years after the end of World War II. The woman, bored, muses on their travels, “The people of each country get more like the people…
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Der Schauspieldirektor (Edit: New Photos!)
Last night, I had the honor of working with awesome folks Matt Aucoin, Sharin Apostolou, Sharleen Joynt, and Ben Bliss to do a production of Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor in a warehouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn (all thanks to Groupmuse…) I directed and wrote new English dialogue, simplifying the plot and bringing the piece into the…