Rhiannon Giddens Dan Winters
Rhiannon Giddens and a roster of classical singers and experts from various fields will dive deep into some of operaâs most renowned melodies for the third season of
Aria Code. The podcast from WQXR and The Metropolitan Opera returns March 10, with new episodes to be released biweekly through November.
In each episode, Grammy winner and MacArthur Fellow Giddens introduces a recording of an operatic performanceâoften of an aria familiar to listeners. However, as the piece is broken down into beats, a panel explores the music through technical, academic, and human interest lenses. Most episodes feature insight from the singer on the recording, a scholar on the titleâs subject matter, and an additional individual outside the opera world.
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This spring, the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M will be hosting Race Talks: An Interdisciplinary Virtual Colloquium Series. The program aims to invigorate campus wide conversation on anti-racist advocacy through pedagogy, performance and research.
Six different university units, Africana studies, the dance program, film studies, Latino/a and Mexican American studies, performance studies and religious studies, are partaking in Race Talks to convene Black, Indigenous and people of color, scholars, managers, art administrators, producers, film makers, musicians, dancers, choreographers, visual artists, faculty and students from across the country to speak on race relations. Events will be held virtually via Zoom on Thursdays throughout the spring semester at 2:00 p.m.
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The Cultural Revolutionaries at the
New York Times this week reviewed the witch hunt against classical musicians, who stand accused of racism simply because the great Western composers happened to be white. Cancel culture is despicable in all of its manifestations, but I take this particular instance personally: I trained in the school of musical analysis founded by Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935). My principle teacher was Carl Schachter, who also taught Prof. Timothy Jackson of the University of North Texas, the target of this particular witch hunt.
It’s all about envy.
My childhood piano teacher kept a recording of Florence Foster Jenkins, the deluded society lady portrayed by Meryl Streep in a 2016 comedy, as a horrible example for youth. Her voice would de-feather a screech-owl, but no-one was allowed to tell her she couldn’t sing. The only classical musician still active who bears comparison to Ms. Jenkins is a certain Philip Ewell, now a professor of music theory at Hunte