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Session 3: Blackness and Spectacular Performance in 19th-Century American Music

A model of emotional compression, Rita Dove’s poem from the 1980s “The House Slave” provides a vivid snapshot of a slave community’s rustlings ‘fo day (before daylight)—children bundled in aprons, meals of cornbread, water, and salt pork, the peaceful sleep of the plantation’s mistress,...

By Dr. Guthrie /  September 30, 2012
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It Ain’t Necessarily So and Ain’t That Peculiar? From Motor City to Catfish Row

Back in January 0f this year I wrote a piece about soprano Alicia Hall Moran’s Motown Project, her intriguing re-visiting of some of the label’s most memorable hits, interspersed with a few opera chestnuts and impressively staged in a performance/theater melodrama.  I wrote about the work in the context...

By Dr. Guthrie /  December 29, 2011
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From Mozart to Motown: Alicia Hall Moran’s Motor City Musings

Things to See, Hear, and Read in ’11, Part One It’s great to witness the process of emerging work.  This is especially true when the piece is as thoughtful as Alicia Hall Moran’s Motown Project, a meditation on the Motown songbook.  Of course, there have been many “covers” of this treasure...

By Dr. Guthrie /  January 8, 2011
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POPera – Opera As Pop Music From The 16th Century to Now

Sitting in an empty concert hall, I remember leaning over the polished banister, enthralled by the enormous sound escaping the quaking lips on a bearded chin.  I had the opportunity to attend the dress rehearsal of Puccini’s opera, Turandot, with my fifth grade class, and the memory of hearing “Nessun...

By Dr. Guthrie /  October 16, 2009
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