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Month: July 2014

A New Make

July 20, 2014Sydney Boyd 1 Comment

  Alex Waterman, director of Robert Ashley’s Vidas Perfectas, introduced tonight’s performance by remembering what Ashley said to him about re-making his television opera Perfect Lives: “Don’t sell them a used car–make them a new one.” The performance tonight in… Continue Reading →

Intermission, New York Alex Waterman, Marfa, Perfect Lives, Robert Ashley, Vidas Perfectas

Summer Intermission: Some Notes

July 9, 2014Sydney Boyd

As the summer opera-hiatus drags on—alas, will October never arrive?—a few notes: Opera is not far away! Alex Waterman directs the late Robert Ashley’s Vidas Perfectas over two weekends in west Texas. Vidas Perfectas is a Spanish iteration of Ashley’s… Continue Reading →

Houston Grand Opera, Intermission, New York Alex Ross, Alex Waterman, Perfect Lives, Robert Ashley, Sash Frere-Jones, The Passenger, Vidas Perfectas

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Sydney Boyd is a critic in Houston, TX. She studies how music shapes narrative temporalities in 20th-century literature in the English PhD program at Rice University, and, occasionally, returns to her origins as a violinist.

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