Theater
James Levine Returns...and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet is Dissolved?
Wagner @ 200: The Pierre Boulez Project @ 8
Eight years ago now, man-with-a-plan Josh Ronsen destroyed more than 100 Pierre Boulez records, tapes, CDs and books--ironically enough--at Austin, Texas' Church of the Friendly Ghost. Somewhere in that heap was Logan K. Young's recording of Boulez's 'Parsifal' at Bayreuth. The following missive, printed here for the first time ever, is Young's 2005 letter to Ronsen. Off Broadway Listing: G Douglas Barrett's 'Two Transcriptions'
'Two Transcriptions' celebrates the release of G Douglas Barrett's vinyl record project--a historical revision of Arnold Schoenberg's 'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41' performed by transgender artists Theo Baer and Zackary Drucker.
