{"id":303,"date":"2010-06-10T20:58:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T20:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=303"},"modified":"2010-06-10T20:58:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T20:58:44","slug":"guess_whos_coming_to_the_opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2010\/06\/guess_whos_coming_to_the_opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess Who’s Coming to the Opera?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, Ann Powers’ review of that little ol’ LA production of Wagner’s Ring<\/i> popped up in my blog reader. The frame-up on this post was that Powers is the Los Angeles Times’<\/i> awesome *pop* critic (gasp!) and here she was slumming it with the classical people. She used her review to present a window into how music fans who consider themselves predominantly pop people might hear and react to the Sturm und Drang<\/i> of Wagner. Conclusions in the piece we might mull over: The music could have been a bit louder…<\/p>\n

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Last night, Ann Powers’ review of that little ol’ LA production of Wagner’s Ring popped up in my blog reader. The frame-up on this post was that Powers is the Los Angeles Times’ awesome *pop* critic (gasp!) and here she was slumming it with the classical people. She used her review to present a window […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}