GRECCHINOIS
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CALLING OUT RACISM EXPOSES EVERYONE’S RACISM?
“A few weeks ago at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance, a Chinese American composition teacher, Bright Sheng, was teaching an undergraduate composition seminar. In the class, he presented a video of the 1965 National Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s Othello in which Lawrence Olivier appears…”
TWENTY YEARS
I don’t remember what I did on the evening of September 10, 2001. Whatever it was, I was so tired that I recall blearily resolving to skip my early dance class at the Manhattan School of Music on the morning of the 11th, just days into the fall semester…
AMONG THE FUCHSIAS
“…The hot, wet, tropical-ish temperatures combined with a little hurricane excitement had me thinking about a beautiful song by the composer Harry Burleigh…The song that kept coming to mind as I navigated the tropical-feeling weather was Burleigh’s Among the Fuchsias, from his collection, Five Songs of Laurence Hope.…”
MAY
“Happy May Day, everyone. I’ve been pretty excited about the arrival of spring lately. It feels filled with extra symbolism these days as more and more of my loved ones are getting vaccinated, and the world seems to be re-emerging into some sort of new ‘normal’. I recently filmed a recital of songs about Springtime…”
GODDESS, EXCELLENTLY BRIGHT
“There was another full moon earlier this week, on Monday. I do hope you’ll forgive me for missing the actual evening of the full moon. As life has begun resuming a sense of normalcy in fits and starts, I am finding myself being unaccustomed to balancing a slightly more complicated schedule now that I am fully vaccinated, and it is safer to go out in the world again…”
LOOK DOWN FAIR MOON
“It’s another full moon tonight, so here is the second installment of my little Moon Song project for 2021. This month, I was drawn to Ned Rorem’s setting of Walt Whitman’s poem, Look Down, Fair Moon…”
THE AMERICAN-NESS OF ANTI-ASIAN VIOLENCE
“Today is Day 30.
I so was looking forward to writing a post celebrating the success of this 30 day challenge to write a post every day, but in the end, I am not able to do that. Instead, I feel that I need to write about the new low this current wave of anti-Asian violence has reached this week…”
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