Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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A small but mighty IATSE organizing drive pops up in Beverly Hills
December 16, 2021Workers at The Wallis won a union representation vote, but management has yet to recognize it or even agree on who is eligible to be the unit—supervisors, part-timers?
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‘Good People’: Some are better than you think, others a whole lot worse
December 14, 2021The “good people” of the title are those who subjectively earn that title by some combination of lineage, class, morals and behavior. But it’s a shape-shifting concept.
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Two new CDs about life in America
December 2, 2021It’s almost as if the impulse to keep singing is what keeps us alive—and maybe it’s true.
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‘Paradise Blue’ evokes 1949 Detroit and early wave of gentrification
November 24, 2021Tony Award-nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau takes us back to 1949 in Paradise Blue.
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‘Roots’: Randall Goosby explores the Black experience on his violin
November 18, 2021The violin, or its cousins in the many musical cultures of the world, is considered among the most expressive of instruments, closely tuned to the timbres and pulse of the human voice.
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‘The Children’: Play tackles generational responsibility
November 10, 2021“The moral dilemma is: what world are we leaving to our children?”
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New vocal CDs address big social issues: Attention, stocking stuffers!
November 8, 2021In the wake of George Floyd, and still amidst the climate crisis, Covid, the lingering sulfurous odor of Trumpism, and so much more, musical artists are stepping up with new releases reflecting deep concerns about the...
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‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’: First Black composer at Metropolitan Opera
October 29, 2021History was made at New York City’s world-famous Metropolitan Opera when it opened the season on September 27 with its first work written by a Black composer, jazz musician, and well-known scorer of many Spike Lee...
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