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Joe Horowitz

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“Aida” in South Africa: a Sonic Earthquake

Photo: Oscar O’Ryan Never in an opera house have I thrilled to such a sonic earthquake as the wall of

“A Tale of Two Cities” — Music and Race in Boston and New York

My latest installment of “More than Music” on NPR explores racial attitudes in Boston and New York at the turn of the

Cultural Diplomacy in South Africa Continued: the University of Michigan Concert Orchestra Goes to...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uTnhLU56Q1w&feature=oembed The Soweto audience erupts. Video by Mathew Pimental Among my most telling experiences of South Africa, when

American Cultural Diplomacy in South Africa Right Now, Courtesy of the University of Michigan

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QiQLyMtBErU&feature=oembed Video by Mathew Pimental At the precise moment that US President Donald Trump was accusing South African

What Ails Today’s Metropolitan Opera? — It’s in the Pit

The current issue of the “New York Review of Books” carries my review of the Metropolitan Opera’s current “Aida” – a new
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