Eric A. Gordon

Eric A. Gordon, People’s World Cultural Editor, wrote a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein and co-authored composer Earl Robinson’s autobiography. He has received numerous awards for his People's World writing from the International Labor Communications Association. He has translated all nine books of fiction by Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Álvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese, available from International Publishers NY.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon

Culture

Supreme Court justices Scalia and Ginsburg on trial in new opera
November 22, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
“Could we please make it a constitutional requirement that no one can be sworn into office in the White House or Congress without having first seen Scalia/Ginsburg?”
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Culture

A Soviet Jewish delegation to America experiences the John F. Kennedy assassination
November 20, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
Leading the group was the Soviet Yiddish poet Aron Vergelis, who was editor of Sovetish Heymland (Soviet Homeland), the primary literary magazine in Yiddish in the USSR.
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Culture

Race relations North/South, today/yesterday, city/plantation
November 17, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon

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Culture

Jake Heggie’s Two Remain: An operatic double bill featuring Holocaust survivors
November 15, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
“Arguably the world’s most popular 21st-century opera and art song composer."
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Culture

‘Lines in the Dust’ dramatizes endemic race discrimination in public education
November 9, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
Numerous milestones marked with the premiere production of this play.
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Culture

‘Girondines’ tells of the reformist women opposing the French Revolution’s Jacobins
November 2, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
Composer Sarah Van Sciver and Librettist Kirsten C. Kunkle have come to town for a two-day, four-performance outing of their opera Girondines.
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Culture

W.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes texts set to music by Margaret Bonds
October 26, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
Textually and musically, we can be grateful that these stunning works can now be heard and appreciated.
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Culture

Reena Esmail and Philip Glass: Musical movers of heaven and earth
October 23, 2023 By Eric A. Gordon
Los Angeles Master Chorale is laudably not just about the grand old masterpieces of massed voices, but also about new music with the capacity to speak to today’s audiences.
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