Sort of a weird venue to advertise this, but just in case: if you are a student at the University of Delaware we are offering a new course this fall on "Music in the United States," taught by my wonderful colleague Dr. England, and you should take it! udapps.nss.udel.edu/CoursesSearc...
This has really helped me understand the bizarre budget situation weâve been dealing with this semester at Delaware. (and made me so thankful to be unionized, and all more committed to getting all of the workers here in a union.)
It is truly an accident of a syllabus designed last fall that somehow, this week of all weeks, we are discussing The Death of Klinghoffer. đŹ
Even easier, admins could follow the time honored practice of letting student protests fizzle out at the end of the semester in a week or two. But impressing politicians and donors is way more important to them.
Pro-Israel thugs violently attack student protestors in the middle of the night, and this is the journalism we get:
This and his original piece about reading very much describes the situation in my classrooms these days.
I will be honest that I went into @OperaPhilaâs production of Madame Butterfly last night thinking that the puppet concept sounded a bit gimmicky, but instead I found it quite powerful. whyy.org/articles/ope...
The short story and opera is both beautiful and a problem. Opera Philadelphia designed a puppet to help it avoid orientalism.
Darkly amused that my universityâs administration is apparently genuinely surprised that the sudden across-the-board spending cuts announced at the beginning of the semester have negatively impacted our work, lol.
Some public musicology for your Wednesday afternoon. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
The composer would have likely have embraced the sound of discord.