Chronicles Magazine Music

Remembering the Right

Paul Gottfried - NOVEMBER 01, 2019

The featured theme of this month’s magazine is focused on a particular task, namely retrieving conservativism and conservative thinkers from the past and explaining their continued relevance to the present. The current conservative movement, as a...

Society & Culture

Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace
Joshua Doggrell - NOVEMBER 01, 2019
I have heard the following remark, or something similar, made about country music on numerous occasions in my life: “You know, it’s kind of hard to take a guy seriously when he sings about loving Jesus one minute and drinking and cheating the next.”
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The Lady of the Camellias
James O. Tate - MAY 17, 2019
I once asked a most discriminating gentleman, who had studied singing, which opera he would call his favorite. He named La traviata. Since then, René Weis has lent support to his opinion at fascinating length in his book, The Real Traviata: The...
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The Music Column

Opera Managed and Mismanaged
James O. Tate - APRIL 04, 2019
Heidi Waleson’s Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America (2018) is a challenging and enlightening work—one which dares much and succeeds remarkably well.
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The Music Column

Opera Near & Far
James O. Tate - MARCH 07, 2019
My relationship with Barnes & Noble is fraught with emotion simply because it is a big bookstore, among other things. And I am one of those types—an inveterate reader—who is easily hooked.
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The Music Column

Opera Without Meaning
James O. Tate - FEBRUARY 07, 2019
Last year, in a January 3 review published by the Daily Telegraph, Hannah Furness made some remarkable assertions concerning the presentation of traditional operas on the modern stage.
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The Music Column

The Carnaval Prank Was On Me
James O. Tate - JANUARY 10, 2019
Sometimes the best things come in distorting packages, no matter how good they are. And sometimes that good is itself misleading when it has great appeal, or even particularly then.
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Chronicles Magazine Music

Remembering the Right

Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace

The Lady of the Camellias

Opera Managed and Mismanaged

Opera Near & Far

Opera Without Meaning

The Carnaval Prank Was On Me

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