Ms., Opera, Music, Mr.

Sola Fadiran and Frances Pollock blind react to Allison Chu's research about the field of music criticism. What is the demographic makeup of the field of classical music criticism? What do critics consider central to the profession of music criticism? And how does Sola feel about the Tonys? Written and Recorded by Frances Pollock and Allison Chu

Produced by Connor O'Toole and Frances Pollock

Dive Deeper: http://www.mcana.org/archive/criticssurvey.html

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Theme Music written by Frances Pollock

Episode Five--Sola, Sondheim, Statistics, Surveys was filmed over zoom and in New Haven, CT where we followed all COVID guidelines throughout the filming process

Episode 5: Sola, Sondheim, Statistics, Surveys

Sola Fadiran and Frances Pollock blind react to Allison Chu's research about the field of music criticism. What is the demographic makeup of the field of classical music criticism? What do critics consider central to the profession of music criticism? And how does Sola feel about the Tonys?

Written and Recorded by Frances Pollock and Allison Chu

Produced by Connor O'Toole and Frances Pollock

Dive Deeper: “The Classical Music Critic: a Survey of Music Critics at General Interest and Specialized News Publications in America”

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Theme Music written by Frances Pollock

Episode Five--Sola, Sondheim, Statistics, Surveys was filmed over zoom and in New Haven, CT where we followed all COVID guidelines throughout the filming process

What does gender have to do with opera? Does opera need to be gay? Composer Alexis Lamb and scholar Hallie Voulgaris join us to talk about the opera's weird relationship with gender and sexuality.

Cast and Crew: Allison Chu, Alexis Lamb, Frances Pollock, Hallie Voulgaris

Produced by Connor O'Toole and Frances Pollock

Dive deeper:

• Pants Roles
• Castrato
• Ethel Smyth
• Singspiel
• David Smooke
• Elizabeth Wood, "Sapphonics" in Queering the Pitch, ed. by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas (London: Routledge, 2011), 27-66.
• As One, by Laura Kaminsky, Mark Campbell, and Kimberly Reed
• Aiden Feltkamp
• Griffin Candey
• Heartbeat Opera
• Drag Queen Story Hour at the Brooklyn Public Library
• Slave Play, Jeremy O. Harris
• Fire in my mouth, Julia Wolfe
• Denis and Katya, by Philip Venables and Ted Huffman
• Eli Greenhoe

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Theme Music written by Frances Pollock

Episode Four -- Alexis, Hallie, Gender, Harry Potter was filmed over zoom and in New Haven, CT where we followed all COVID guidelines throughout the filming process

Ms., Opera, Music, Mr.

Episode 3--Rhetoric, Analysis, Opera, Owls?

Owls… and opera research? Join Allison Chu and Frances Pollock for Episode 3 of Ms., Opera, Music, Mr. to find out how this whole project began, and why owls are so important to this project. Nearly a year later, Allison and Frances are diving deep into reviews to think about the power of language and unconscious biases in the world of opera

Cast and Crew

Allison Chu

Frances Pollock

Check out some of the material discussed in this week's episode:

Voyant Tools

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Theme Music written by Frances Pollock

Episode Three--Rhetoric, Analysis, Opera, Owls? was filmed over zoom and in New Haven, CT where we followed all COVID guidelines throughout the filming process

Ms., Opera, Music, Mr.

Episode Two--Edwin, Joel, Reviews, Hot-Takes

Allison Chu interviews artists, Edwin Joseph, Joel Thompson, and Frances Pollock about their experience being reviewed.

Thought Experiment: Compare and contrast Joel and Nico's artist features in the New York Times. What are the similarities and what are the differences? After reading them, what sticks with you about each artist?

Joel Thompson’s feature in the New York Times

Nico Muhly’s feature in the New York Times

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Check out some of the material discussed in this week's episode:

Nico Muhly

Joel Thompson

Tim Smith

Bret McCabe

Howard Reich’s review of Joel Thompson in Chicago Tribune

Anne Midgette’s review of Frances Pollock’s opera in the Washington Post

Edwin in Coco

Wesley Morris

A.O. Scott

Guy Fieri’s Review in the New York Times

Wagner’s Die Feen at the Glimmerglass Festival 2020 (postponed)

Ellen Reid and Roxie Perkins’s prism: Listen here; Read here.

Aaron Copland

Cast and Crew

Allison Chu, Edwin Joseph, Joel Thompson, Frances Pollock

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MUSIC Theme Music written by Frances Pollock

Episode Two--Edwin, Joel, Reviews, Hot-Takes was filmed over zoom and in New Haven, CT where we followed all COVID guidelines throughout the filming process.

Episode 1—Frances, Allison, bios, obsessions

Written and Recorded by Frances Pollock and Allison Chu

Produced by Connor O'Toole and Frances Pollock

Dive Deeper:

• Y | Opera | Studies | Today Conference
• Blue Monday: John Andrew Johnson, "Gershwin's Blue Monday (1922) and the Promise of Success," in The Gershwin Style, ed. Wayne Schneider. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
• Porgy and Bess
• Shen Musical Theater Curriculum
• Dead Man Walking
• L'amour de Loin
• Missy Mazzoli
• Jeanine Tesori
• Revisionist History: The Lady Vanishes
• Beth Morrison Projects
• Philip Ewell's "Beethoven is an above average composer and let's leave it at that"
• New York City Opera

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