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Fergus McIntosh

Fergus McIntosh

Interim Classical Editor at The New Yorker

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Winter Classical-Music Preview: Oedipal Opera and Proletarian Oratorios - The New Yorker

Peter Sellars said recently that he “would like to go to the theatre to calm down.” Under his direction, the White Light Festival presentation of “Only the Sound Remains” (Nov. 17-18)—Kaija Saariaho’s darkly shimmering adaptation of two Noh plays that Ezra Pound rendered into English—makes for a quiet start to a varied operatic season. BAM raises the volume with a production of “Greek,” by Mark-Anthony Turnage, which sets the Oedipus fable in bawdy nineteen-eighties London (Dec. 5-9). And, at th…
about 6 years ago
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Close at Hand with the Pianist Igor Levit - The New Yorker

At Zankel, Levit’s program was drawn from his new album, “Life,” a rumination on the death of a friend. A U.S. flag hung motionless on stage right as Levit sat at the gleaming Steinway, raised one arm, and began a chaconne by Bach, in an arrangement by Brahms for left hand only. Music of impassioned wisdom fell within a handspan, and, as Levit played, his right hand sometimes rose to his chest, or formed a fist and softly punched the piano stool. After a quarter of an hour, the piece came to a c…
about 6 years ago
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Spring Classical-Music Preview - The New Yorker

Robert Lepage’s production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle (March 9-May 11) divides opinion, but the appeal of the Metropolitan Opera’s revival cast, with Christine Goerke as the Valkyrie Brünnhilde, is undeniable. If eighteen hours at the opera seems a bridge too far, Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites” (May 3-11), in which the stellar Isabel Leonard reprises her role as a lyrically tremulous nun, provides a historico-religious gut punch in only three. At the Metropolitan Museum, the Handel + Haydn S…
over 5 years ago
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Democrats Abroad, Including Bernie Sanders's Brother, Cast Their Pr...

Daniela Jones, a retired nurse from Hampshire, was first in line. She had travelled forty miles to cast her vote in person. Jones was born in Munich, the daughter of a German mother and an American serviceman. Inspired by a relative in Arkansas who was relying on a GoFundMe to cover his health-care costs, she was voting for Bernie Sanders. “I’ve always gone with Bernie,” she said. “I want the people over there to have a similar social safety net to what we have here.” Although Jones had never li…
over 4 years ago
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Zoom Fatigue? Try Houseparty

What to do? One could try this spring’s second-most downloaded app and see if it’s any better. Houseparty, launched in 2016, allows users to convene in “rooms” of up to eight people and entertain themselves with virtual board games (including a Pictionary knockoff) and trivia quizzes. Before the pandemic, Houseparty was a Gen-Z hangout, a mid-tier player in the video-calling leagues. Then the app gained fifty million new users in one month. It’s the virtual living room to Zoom’s virtual office.…
over 4 years ago
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A Life with Art at the Center, in “Yves & Variation”

Cornett, who planned to become a violinist before turning to film, met Deshommes when they sat next to each other on the subway. He’s pictured there partway through the film, travelling between worlds and reading “Recollections of a Picture-Dealer,” by Ambroise Vollard, but we first see him in the lobby of a midtown office building, where he works as a concierge. In the opening shots, he’s preparing to practice the violin, as he does every day before the morning rush. Standing behind the front d…
over 4 years ago
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A Dancer’s Disruption of Conservative Flamenco Culture

In “Flamenco Queer,” Manuel Liñán plays with gender, transforming both his appearance and a traditional art.
over 3 years ago
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An Undocumented Chef’s Menu of Memories

Iván Garcia, the restaurateur and the subject of the film “I Carry You With Me,” can’t go back to Mexico, where his son, granddaughter, and mother live. So he creates dishes based on the cooking of the grandmothers and nuns back home.
over 3 years ago
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Curating Willem Dafoe’s Canvas Co-Stars

In “Inside,” the actor plays a thief who gets trapped in a penthouse, with priceless paintings, caviar, and views as his only companions.
over 1 year ago
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The Emerson Quartet Goes the Way of One Direction

“This is an unusually leisurely pace for us,” Drucker said. “We’re playing in Milan on Tuesday, Turin on Wednesday, then back to the U.S. on Thursday.” “But then it’s really sort of a sprint to the finish,” Watkins, who was sweating slightly in a blue checked shirt and claret-colored trousers, said. “After we get back, we’ve got—oh, my God, the glamour never stops. We’re going to Cleveland!” “There’s a lot of nostalgia in some places, knowing that it’s the last time,” Drucker, who wore a faded b…
about 1 year ago
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The Best New Book Written Entirely in Latin You’ll Try to Read This...

Why Donatien Grau, an adviser at the Louvre, decided to write “De Civitate Angelorum,” a book about Los Angeles, the Roman way.
2 months ago