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“Hello, oh margaret it's you!” (Iucy’s first aria)
My poster design for comic opera The Telephone (L 'Amour à trois) by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti.
The commission recently I’ve been working on from the school requires. The performance happens at the end of this month.
I am so excited to officially announce that I will be releasing my first long form video essay in over two years at the end of this month!!! I've made it no secret as of lately that Street Scene was a life changing show to be a part of, and I've made it my mission to show every musical theatre/opera lover who hasn't seen it just how much they've been missing out. This will be a comprehensive analysis diving deep into the characters, musical themes, historical context, and politics of this tragically under-appreciated masterpiece. I highly recommend the Houston Grand Opera and Madrid Teatro Real proshots on Youtube if you'd like to watch the show before watching the video essay, but in case you can't, the video will be split into spoiler/non spoiler sections. Get some popcorn and a blanket, 'cause it's gonna crack an hour. See you guys then :))))
#ThisWeekInJET inspired by @byshefon on Twitter. Marian Anderson, African American opera singer is on the cover of Jet Magazine in February 7, 1952. Google books has archived editions of magazines such as Jet, Ebony, and Negro Digest.
Complacency and Indifference
To all appearances I am complacent and indifferent.
That is, I appear to be complacent and indifferent.
And, in fact, I am complacent in that I am
indifferent to appearances. My apparent indifference
and myapparent complacency would seem to be
the result of my position in the social world.
I am well-fed. I am well-dressed. I am,
to all appearances, without need. No one would challenge
me that I do not understand the value of my resources,
that I should have undertaken actions that would result
in waste and make me a burden to society.
These outward manifestations, these appearances,
show nothing about my --if I may use the word --
spiritual or my intellectual well-being,
though commonly they are taken to do so.
Our common experience is that spiritual
or intellectual degeneration cannot take place
without outward manifestations. Our common
experience is that beggars on the street or
madmen who rant and tear their clothing
should not be approached except in acts of
defense of society. So, my indifference is
different from the indifference of the beggar or
the madman. My indifference is wedded to complacency,
and complacency is reassuring at all times,
signifying as it does, the stability and
reality of the things of this world.
Thus, you have honored my ticket, which certainly
you should not have had I appeared before you
as a beggar or as a madman.
The irony of the threatening aspect
of complacency is too complicated to
go into here, except to remark that
there is some connection between the threat and
the continuing illusion of stability and
reality, which illusion is so valuable to us all.
I have driven my husband from me by my
complacency and my indifference. The moment of
his departure, which was inevitable, is of
little consequence, except for the drama --which
purports to teach us something. -- Robert Ashley, Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)
Read the full libretto here.
Passage above appears on page 12, lines 371 - 410
Monster Mash (a cappella cover) by American Opera
Do you ever listen to the album Small Victories (2017) by American Opera and feel a unique devastation because you grew up with the singer being such a big influence on your formative years with his previous band and when they broke up you waited for new music and supported the singer because he’s one of your favorite lyricists of all time and then waited more and more, listening to his music when your life got harder and harder only to feel wrecked listening to his first full album and last piece of musical media because while life was bad for you, it was also bad for him and somehow listening to it feels like a mirror of your own life and even though the end of the album is gut-wrenching and raw and full of grief, the album still ends on a somber happy note and after listening to it you feel like you can take on the world because you know you will always get through whatever it is no matter what because you’ve made it this far and been through unimaginable hurts very few people truly understand, but this album understands you and you understand it and it’s somehow become a core memory and feeling for you that it’s really difficult to put into words and you wonder often if the singer is still singing, or are you normal?
Giants Chair Announce First Album In 23 Years "Prefabylon"
Giants Chair Announce First Album In 23 Years “Prefabylon”
Influential post-hardcore/emo trio Giants Chair are back with their first album in two decades.
The record called Prefabylon marks their first full-length since splitting up in 1997 and their first batch of new songs since 2017 with “The Streets” and “Featureless Horizon.” It comes out December 6 on Spartan Records (American Opera, Florida Man, Honey And Salt.)
“I feel like the band kind of found…
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American Opera announce fall tour
American Opera have announced their plans for a fall tour starting next month.
Check out the tour dates below.
