Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Race relations North/South, today/yesterday, city/plantation
November 17, 2023 -
Jake Heggie’s Two Remain: An operatic double bill featuring Holocaust survivors
November 15, 2023“Arguably the world’s most popular 21st-century opera and art song composer."
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‘Lines in the Dust’ dramatizes endemic race discrimination in public education
November 9, 2023Numerous milestones marked with the premiere production of this play.
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‘Girondines’ tells of the reformist women opposing the French Revolution’s Jacobins
November 2, 2023Composer 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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W.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes texts set to music by Margaret Bonds
October 26, 2023Textually and musically, we can be grateful that these stunning works can now be heard and appreciated.
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Reena Esmail and Philip Glass: Musical movers of heaven and earth
October 23, 2023Los 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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Native dramatist satirizes ‘woke’ pretensions in ‘The Thanksgiving Play’
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The Jewish Labor Bund, a history in comic book form
October 17, 2023The Bund is no great mystery to serious students of modern Jewish history, though a full understanding of its achievements may still be limited to those who can read Yiddish.
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