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what was left

The poem takes on the growing political will to abandon the arts. And it rhymes! Is this a song? an anthem? #903 Continue reading

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First Night

The bari’s laryngitis for his first time on the stage built a backstage tension no lozenge could assuage. The bass was getting nervous: he had a tricky part; in “Sh Boom” he sings a counterpoint—the timing is an art. The … Continue reading

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Deadly Ignorance

Harper thinks the arts are practised by rich farts who drive in limousines to galas most obscene. He doesn’t realize the arts are little guys and girls of every station who work across this nation at jobs for minimum wage … Continue reading

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