Semyon Bychkov and the NY Phil brought off a splendid performance of Bruckner’s 8th Symphony tonight. Bruckner’s music does not retreat or wilt—it’s as if he’s saying: “Have I made my point?” Yes, Herr Bruckner, you’ve certainly made your point
It becomes necessary to click on to the YouTube screed to bring up Ana Maria Martinez’s Butterfly performance, from what I can tell. Regards, Donald Lindeman @profrhodrilewis
Greetings Prof Rhodri Lewis: here except of Ana Maria Maritinez (late doctor’s daughter) in revival of Madama Butterfly by Robert Wilson, in Paris. Accentuates her elegance. She’s returning to the Met as Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte. Undeniable sentiment from my end
@John_Attridge Representation is an extremely significant category that remains insufficiently explored. Representation refers to a kind of action in human activity that creates paradoxes and areas of adherence wherever and whenever it manifests itself, appears
@JLLiedl Pope Leo’s got it entirely right when it comes to the superstition that AI could somehow be sentient. A mere observation from David Bentley Hart helps to clarify: “A clock doesn’t ‘know’ what time it is”
@dlondonwortel There’s. downtown Brooklyn, but no specific ‘downtown’ in or of Manhattan, since that would sound oddly domesticating. ‘Downtown’ reg Manhattan is more generic, as in ‘not Midtown,’ or, below Midtown