Some anecdotes from the backstage front lines (so to speak) of opera in the US in the 1980s. – Greg Sandow
Tag: 05.06.19
In every pot
Had you told me in 1963 — or 1985 — that I would live to see a fully mobile phone in every person’s pocket, I would have laughed in your face. And it’s easy to forget that as late as 1940, 45% of all Americans did not yet have indoor plumbing. – Terry Teachout
‘Trans-Am Totem’ and ‘Autogeddon’
A friend sent this photo of Marcus Bowcott’s Trans Am Totem, which stands amid the traffic in Vancouver. For me the sculpture brings to mind Heathcote Williams’s 1991 chapbook Autogeddon. – Jan Herman
The Laryngectomy Survivors In The Choir
They’re learning to sing without a voice box, and they literally do have a choir. – BBC