Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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‘The Climb’ dramatizes trauma, adaptation, and hope for the blind
December 7, 2023“The failure is not trying,” the performers state, as one of a number of memorable mottos. “Never lose sight of who you are.”
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Old haunts and new museums in New Orleans: WWII, Jewish, Brecht
December 6, 2023I wonder if, without first-hand memories from wartime family members, future generations will see this history, and this museum, in such a benevolent light.
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‘The Talented Tenth’ explores African-American success—and its high price
November 29, 2023The Talented Tenth tackles many issues, not the least of them the unspoken conflicts holding over from the old Howard days about racial hue, national identity, and what was known then as “Negritude.”
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West Coast premiere of ‘Freight’ starring J. Alphonse Nicholson is must-see theater
November 28, 2023Is a Christ-like vow of poverty truly the answer to the Black dilemma in America—or space travel to Saturn?
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Supreme Court justices Scalia and Ginsburg on trial in new opera
November 22, 2023“Could we please make it a constitutional requirement that no one can be sworn into office in the White House or Congress without having first seen Scalia/Ginsburg?”
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A Soviet Jewish delegation to America experiences the John F. Kennedy assassination
November 20, 2023Leading the group was the Soviet Yiddish poet Aron Vergelis, who was editor of Sovetish Heymland (Soviet Homeland), the primary literary magazine in Yiddish in the USSR.
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Race relations North/South, today/yesterday, city/plantation
November 17, 2023
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Jake Heggie’s Two Remain: An operatic double bill featuring Holocaust survivors
November 15, 2023“Arguably the world’s most popular 21st-century opera and art song composer."
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