Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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‘The Lehman Trilogy’: Epic theater traces a finance family’s 160-year history
March 9, 2022One doesn’t have to admire these people, except for the sheer brilliance of their heartless audacity, to recognize The Lehman Trilogy as one of the most significant plays of our time.
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Expressions of African-American music on CD—and all that jazz
March 7, 2022Jazz is widely recognized as perhaps the only musical art form originating in the United States, thanks largely to its African-American inventors.
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A re-radicalized Beethoven ‘Fidelio’ for the Black Lives Matter era
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Docudrama ‘Detained’ exposes true stories of mass immigrant deportation
February 25, 2022Immigrants across America who might years ago have had some minor brush with the law are being rounded up, torn from their families.
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‘Power of Sail’: Fighting Nazis in the Ivy League (or inviting them in)
February 23, 2022This is truly what theater and the arts need to be doing now to educate, enlighten, and awaken.
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‘Only an Octave Apart’: Celebrating queerness in opera and cabaret mashup CD
February 22, 2022We are dealing here with sophisticated artists of vast professional experience and accomplishment who are sensitive to “the promise of living” in all its complexity.
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‘Legacy of a Garage Band’: A bittersweet Chicano reminiscence of lost youth
February 17, 2022In many ways Legacy is a coming-of-age story.
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For African-American History Month: Three vocal CDs in review
February 14, 2022It seems like a very apt project for interfaith and interracial collaboration.
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