Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Recently Read

Here are a couple of links I bookmarked during the last weeks. I recommended some of them already via Facebook, Twitter and so on. Check out the overview.

Death has always be an important part of opera. In their article "Four centuries of suicide in opera" for the "Medical Journal of Australia", Saxby A. Pridmore and his co-authors are researching this topic from a medical point of view. In the already in 2013 published results they came to the conclusion, that
 "over several centuries in opera, suicide has been frequently represented as an option when characters have been faced with a distressing event or situation. Historical fluctuations in the frequency of suicidal behaviour in opera may be explained by changes in attitudes towards suicide and its conceptualisation."

Four Centuries Of Suicide In Opera


During the preparation of my upcoming interview with Canadian composer Caitlin Smith, who is working on an opera about the war in Afghanistan,  I found an article (January 13th) on an opera about the US military operation in Somalia. Marsha Lederman, who writes for the The Globe and Mail tells us the story about photographer Paul Watson, who is haunted by the memory of a photo he shot in Somalia of an mutilated US soldier.
The collaboration with US writer Dan O'Brien was supposed to alleviate his fears and yielded an opera, a play, and a book on the Somalia topic. Together with composer Jonathan Berger they wrote the opera "Visitations", comprising the chamber operas "Theotokia" and "The War Reporter", based on Watsons experiences in Somalia and the writings by O'Brien.

Striking Somali war photo inspires new works in curious creative partnership


Astrid Baumgardner wrote on Januar 30th for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN a not necessarily music related but non the less important article for music entrepreneurs. She proposes her SMART-goals, with is short for five steps of achieving a personal goal.

SMART Goals for SMART Music Entrepreneurs



On January 31st Grant Damron wrote for Bachtrack about technologies that change the way the creative process works.

Ten technologies that have reshaped how composers create


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