Eric A. Gordon

Eric A. Gordon, People’s World Cultural Editor, wrote a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein and co-authored composer Earl Robinson’s autobiography. He has received numerous awards for his People's World writing from the International Labor Communications Association. He has translated all nine books of fiction by Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Álvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese, available from International Publishers NY.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon

Arts

“A Singular They”: Intersex drama explores teenage angst
March 31, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon
Most coming of age stories don't also involve deciding what gender you want to be. That's the dilemma facing the lead character in this play.
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Arts

New opera “Fallujah”: Heartbreaking look at war and PTSD online now
March 23, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon
It is the first opera written about the Iraq War, and it is highly worthwhile.
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Arts

New play confronts Alaskan Native and Caucasian worlds
March 21, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon
In this play, an angry teenager from a troubled home in Juneau is sent to live and work with his Tlingit grandparents in a remote fishing village.
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Arts

“Rosenkavalier”: A still-felt operatic kiss to a dying empire
March 17, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon
"The Chevalier of the Rose," which premiered in Dresden in 1911, is Richard Strauss's best known and most loved opera.
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Labor

Suffering the insufferable because of economic insecurity: Women in the economy
March 10, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon
A large number of presenters addressed several aspects of the crisis of women's work today.
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Arts

Political thriller with music about Japanese HIV scandal impresses L.A.
March 10, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon
Fast moving, eye-catching, colorful, deeply affecting, cathartic, and redemptive.
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Arts

“Anthracite Fields” earns Pulitzer for music about Pennsylvania coal miners
March 8, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon
The working class has gained a new champion in the concert hall with the rise of composer Julia Wolfe.
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Arts

“I kill a man…/I love a man…”: The Emile Griffith jazz opera
February 24, 2016 By Eric A. Gordon
Of the hundreds of opera performances I have attended over a lifetime, rarely have I been so emotionally stirred as I was by this one.
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