Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Activism for Cuba ramping up in Southern California
September 1, 2023A stunningly affecting concert performance was for many of those lucky enough to be attending that afternoon, their introduction to the work of this anti-imperialist group.
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Hear the rediscovered documentary movie music of American composer Alan Shulman
August 31, 2023“The middlebrow ideal was to be sophisticated without being pretentious, worldly but not effete, and classical music with an American accent fit the bill.”
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‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’: Probing the souls of young Catholic conservatives
August 25, 2023Perhaps as many questions are left unanswered as settled, but bottom line, this is one play not to be missed.
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‘Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare’: An engrossing museum treatment of cultural repression
August 21, 2023In an authoritative, comprehensive exhibition currently on view at the Skirball Cultural Center, visitors can explore the history and impact of the Hollywood Red Scare and its contemporary implications.
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Modern Yiddish publishing: New feminist horror stories by Elizabeth Schwartz
August 14, 2023Schwartz excels at word-painting the social environments she writes about.
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Intersectional play ‘All Things Considered’: ‘We’re not in Jamaica any more’
August 9, 2023Gordon’s play is very contemporary, taking on controversial, difficult topics involving national and cultural identity and more.
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African-American composer Florence Price receives her due on new CD
August 7, 2023"She switches between soulful, traditional American folk melodies, and modern takes on late-Romantic harmonic idioms."
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‘One Moment of Freedom’ tells the dramatic story of the formerly enslaved MumBet
August 3, 2023The play lifts up the historical figure of Elizabeth “MumBet” Freeman and helps to restore her to public consciousness.
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