Dissertation Digest: Portraying the Anti-Heroine in Contemporary Opera
By Nicholas StevensIn September 2017, I pasted a link to an interview into an email, and sent it to my former doctoral… Read More
By Nicholas StevensIn September 2017, I pasted a link to an interview into an email, and sent it to my former doctoral… Read More
By Gwynne Brown To teach any survey course is to resign oneself to a series of regrettable omissions, generalizations, and compromises. I was keenly aware of this fact a few years ago when I prepared to teach… Read More
By John Spilker At the 2017 Teaching Music History Conference, colleagues discussed two potential trends in teaching music history courses: a content-oriented music history survey approach and… Read More
By Jim Buhler Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! is an exceptionally bleak film. It offers an ambitious and disturbing allegory of creativity and, evidently, “climate change and humanity’s role in environmental destruction”—though the… Read More
By Brooke McCorkle The season of fall horror movies is upon us; It reigns the box office and a slew of Halloween slashers will soon follow, but it is Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! that is generating the most debate.At once a psychological thriller and… Read More
By Mark Durrand Without knowing from the outset that Darren Aronofsky originally conceived Mother! as a critical intervention into the increasingly fraught relationship between humans and the environment as symbolized through biblical narratives, it seems unlikely that the writer/director’s intentions would be apparent. In fact, even knowing what the film… Read More
By Danijela Kulezic-Wilson It’s been said that Darren Aronofsky’s style has the subtlety of a chainsaw, which is not entirely… Read More
By Erinn Knyt Ultimately it is always in a man’s impact and not in his successes that his value is determined. And the influence that Busoni has had on our generation, not just as a pianist… Read More