Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Arts
New play confronts Alaskan Native and Caucasian worlds
March 21, 2016In this play, an angry teenager from a troubled home in Juneau is sent to live and work with his Tlingit grandparents in a remote fishing village.
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Arts
“Rosenkavalier”: A still-felt operatic kiss to a dying empire
March 17, 2016"The Chevalier of the Rose," which premiered in Dresden in 1911, is Richard Strauss's best known and most loved opera.
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Labor
Suffering the insufferable because of economic insecurity: Women in the economy
March 10, 2016A large number of presenters addressed several aspects of the crisis of women's work today.
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Arts
Political thriller with music about Japanese HIV scandal impresses L.A.
March 10, 2016Fast moving, eye-catching, colorful, deeply affecting, cathartic, and redemptive.
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Arts
“Anthracite Fields” earns Pulitzer for music about Pennsylvania coal miners
March 8, 2016The working class has gained a new champion in the concert hall with the rise of composer Julia Wolfe.
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Arts
“I kill a man…/I love a man…”: The Emile Griffith jazz opera
February 24, 2016Of the hundreds of opera performances I have attended over a lifetime, rarely have I been so emotionally stirred as I was by this one.
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Opinion
Have you “turned around”? Reflections on my generation’s political evolution
February 23, 2016Did I "rapidly burn out?" Did most of my friends in "the movement" follow that course? I rather think not.
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Arts
A new opera focuses on Frau Schindler of “List” fame
February 12, 2016In three acts, the opera features more than 20 roles, plus chorus, in scenes that alternate between the Schindler home and the factory.
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