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A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, Review
Archives 1998. S.E. Barcus is also on Facebook.
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Dido and Aeneas, Spoleto Festival Preview
“This ‘jewel’, as Director Chen Shi-Zheng calls it, is the first important English opera ever written, standing somewhere in time — in 1689 — between the operas of Monteverdi and Gluck.” From S.E. Barcus’ Charleston City Paper archives.
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Kurt Weill’s Die Bürgschaft, Spoleto Festival Preview
Spoleto presents Kurt Weill’s Die Burgschaft, preview. From the S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives, 1999.
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Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Piccolo Spoleto Festival Preview
Piccolo Spoleto presents Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, preview. From the S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives, 1999.
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Music of 1930’s Berlin, Spoleto Festival Preview
“Berlin at the end of the Great War was a city filled with brilliant, young, inflamed, and rebellious minds who wanted the destruction of an invalid past.” From S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives.
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Music in Time, Spoleto’s Contemporary Classical Music Showcase, a Preview
2001 Archives My interview with John Kennedy. Every Spoleto, I was most reliably excited by Kennedy’s curated contemporary classical music series. For this year, 2001, we got to hear music by Ruth Crawford Seeger, in honor of her centennial, including Nine Preludes for Piano, Music for Small Orchestra, and Three Songs, as well as some…
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Laurie Anderson’s Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, Spoleto Festival Preview
Laurie Anderson’s Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, preview. From S.E. Barcus Charleston City Paper archives, 1999.
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Age and Sex Trends of Contemporary Classical Music Composers, Using Current Popularity Data
This study determined which contemporary classical music (CCM) composers were more popular amongst avid consumers of CCM, when categorized as either: alive or dead; young or old; and female or male.
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The Good, Hard Work of “Hail, Caesar!”
The Coen Brothers’ new movie, Hail, Caesar!, shows you the man behind the curtain at a Hollywood studio. Set during the 1950’s, the story involves Josh Brolin’s “Everyman”, Eddie Mannix, which is also a fortuitous alliteration. The first shot of the film shows Eddie deep in remorse, alone in a Confessional. He has failed to…
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Tales from the Plague: Surge One, Nursing Heroes.
By S.E. Barcus That first patient we got in our country? We did everything right. We were so proud. Yet with hindsight, we along with everyone else squandered the next month that we could have spent preparing. If only we had better leadership. (Trump: “The 15 within a couple of days is going to…
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