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German singer and opera singer (1935-1993)
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-03-13 18:04:40
‘I’m Not A Gay Writer, I’m A Monster. Gay Writers Are Too Conservative.’ Are American Readers Finally Ready For James Purdy?
“Despite praise in his lifetime from Langston Hughes, Susan Sontag, Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, as well as – in later years – John Waters and Jonathan Franzen, Purdy … cast out by the US literary establishment,” which wasn’t ready for either his experimental style or his outré subject matter. (Nelson Algren called one of Purdy’s […]
2019-01-10 07:56:36
Oper Köln delivers a colourful account of Ralph Benatsky & Robert Stolz’ The White Horse Inn
Oper Koeln - Ralph Benatsky, Robert Stolz: The White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rössl) (Photo Paul Leclaire) Ralph Benatsky and Robert Stolz The White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rössl); Netta Or, Alexander Kaimbacher, Alexander Franzen, Emily Hindrichs, Paul Schweinester, Till von Orlowsky, dir: Eike Ecker; cond: Arne Willimczik; Oper Köln, Staatenhaus Saal II Reviewed by Tony Cooper on 5 January 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) This new production of Ralph Benatsky and Robert Stolz’ bubbling operetta, The White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rössl) hit the mark at Oper Köln leaving a packed house on a highI’ve visited Austria on many occasions and therefore know the country quite well but the trio of villages that hug the Wolfgangsee (St Wolfgang, Strobl and St Gilgen) situated in the picturesque Salzkammergut region of Upper Austria, take some beating, But of special interest to me was to the fact that I stayed at […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-06-27 16:26:43
What It's Like To Be Jonathan Franzen Today
What had he done that was so wrong? Here he was, in his essays and interviews, making informed, nuanced arguments about the way we live now — about anything from Twitter (which he is against) to the way political correctness has been weaponized to shut down discourse (which he is against) to obligatory self-promotion (which […]
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2017-08-11 15:25:42
The contemporary music label Kairos has posted the following notice: Peter Oswald, founder of our label KAIROS, died on 3 August 2017. His love for new music, his enthusiasm for young composers and his belief in the power of the arts will be an ongoing inspiration for our future work for KAIROS. Ostwald died during the night. He founded KAIROS in 1999 with Barbara Fränzen, his wife. The produced recordings by living, modernist composers, among them Furrer, Scelsi, Lachenmann, Saariaho, Olga Neuwirth and Rebecca Saunders.
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