This doesn’t sit well with me. Heard the opera news this morning on WQXR’s audio stream.
Gérard Mortier, the incoming general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera, has commissioned composer Charles Wuorinen to create an opera based on “Brokeback Mountain,” Annie Proulx’s short story, first published in the New Yorker magazine and later adapted into a celebrated movie by Ang Lee. The opera is currently scheduled to make its premiere during City Opera’s 2013 spring season.
Oh. Crap.
VOX program director Yuval Sharon said in the opening panel discussion, “All art is political. Making a work non-political is still a political statement.”
Where have I heard that before?
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
The New York City Opera has either been invaded by social nihilists or they have identified another “market”.
New York City Opera is proud to open its doors for its inaugural Boys Night, a social event for gay men, on Friday, April 11,starting at 6:45 PM for an evening of cocktails, light fare and entertainment when Leonard Bernstein’s Candide takes over the stage at the New York State Theater
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Celebrity for the sake of celebrity as Paris Hilton, is a better measure of decadence.
Yesterday I argued with a friend of mine about what is art. I’m in the process of refining my definition. My previous definition couldn’t differentiate craft from art.