@mpcolin

Freelance journalist writing on the arts, cultural trends, societal issues, wellness, legal affairs. https://xitter.cf/t.co/6UPeRkcfsh

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Joined August 2012
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New Single: Etude No.17 performed by Vanessa Wagner: open.spotify.com/track/6v4qj…
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Paavo Jarvi@paavo_jarvi1 Mar 2025
🇺🇦 #macdonaldtrump
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Enjoyed interviewing composer John Adams about his new piano concerto for @VikingurMusic Olafsson & @SFSymphony for @sfchronicle and @SFCV datebook.sfchronicle.com/cla…

S.F. Symphony and John Adams prepare for another blockbuster world premiere

The Bay Area composer has written his third piano concerto, “After the Fall,” for the orchestra and Icelandic virtuoso soloist Víkingur Ólafsson.

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The South Koreans are winning #booktrain #seoul
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Ted Gioia@tedgioia6 Sep 2024
I'm mourning the death of Brazilian music star Sérgio Mendes (1941-2024). This track from his famous Brasil 66 band still sounds fresh and vibrant, so many decades later.
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SF Classical Voice@SFCV6 Jun 2024
"The Magic Flute" kicked off the 2024 summer season at @SFOpera, restyling the War Memorial stage as a 1920s silent film. Our reviewer notes that "the show’s transforming technical feat comes in how the imagery is blended with the singers." sfcv.org/articles/review/sf-… #opera #mozart

At SF Opera, Mozart’s The Magic Flute Gets the Silent-Movie Treatment

Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade’s richly imagined production is a visual feast, though sometimes at the cost of the music and the action.

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Paul Auster had a most striking face & how ironic that according to his poignant memoir “The Invention of Solitude,” his father avoided him not only emotionally but literally, did not look at him (for some mysterious reason). Paul himself, warmly sympathetic, gregarious.
City Lights Books@CityLightsBooks1 May 2024
From the City Lights archives: A publicity photo of Paul Auster, 1987. Caption reads: Paul Auster, author of IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS, to be published by Viking on April 20 at $15.95, and CITY OF GLASS, to be published by Penguin on April 7 at $5.95. (c) Francoise Schein
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Join us over the next few months as we share more of what’s possible because of our work to amplify the voices of living composers #becauseofACF
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Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77 theguardian.com/books/2024/m…

Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77

The writer of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1 – known for his stylised postmodernist fiction – has died from complications of lung cancer

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Enjoyed interviewing Pianist Awadagin Pratt for @sfcv as he dished on concert jeans, playing Jessie Montgomery's Grammy-winning Rounds. sfcv.org/articles/artist-spo… @classicalbeat @juliaturner @nprclassical @jmontgomerymusc @SFNewCentury @SFConservMusic sfcv.org/articles/artist-spo…

The Next Chapter for Pianist Awadagin Pratt

Pratt is spending more time in the Bay Area, teaching at SFCM and soloing with ensembles like New Century Chamber Orchestra.

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Enjoyed interviewing Pianist Awadagin Pratt for @sfcv as he dished on concert jeans, playing Jessie Montgomery's Grammy-winning Rounds. sfcv.org/articles/artist-spo… @classicalbeat @JoshuaKosman @nprclassical @jmontgomerymusc @SFNewCentury @SFConservMusic sfcv.org/articles/artist-spo…

The Next Chapter for Pianist Awadagin Pratt

Pratt is spending more time in the Bay Area, teaching at SFCM and soloing with ensembles like New Century Chamber Orchestra.

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From the Winter issue of @esquire: Viet Thanh Nguyen on his mid-life crisis and finding freedom in being "mid." "I rapidly deduced that mid is not good. Mid is mediocre. Middle of the road. Meh. And then I realized—I am mid." esquire.com/lifestyle/a45855…

Inside My Mid-Life Crisis

After 40, most of us start to panic about what we have (or haven’t) accomplished. Me? I’m learning that there’s more to life than being a famous writer.

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Reading a manuscript of @SamDalrymple123's brilliant, brilliant Shattered Lands: The Five Partitions of India 1937-71, and completely blown away by it. He has such a gift for making accessible and fascinating complex tangles of late colonial history, and it makes me realise how little I understood of the last days of British rule in South Asia. While I am, of course, unbelievably proud, I am also slowly becoming resigned to becoming the Kingsley Amis of Indian & Imperial history, fated to be known forever as the father of the more brilliant son (not so terrible a fate.) Shattered Lands will be published by @HarperCollins in Spring 2025. – at Sri Lanka
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One month ago, @MosabAbuToha started texting me a few hundred words a day. He was still in Gaza. Still sleeping in a school. Still recovering from beatings he got in Israeli custody. But every day, he typed this story into his phone: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
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Jari Kallio@KalliJari27 Oct 2023
Today’s not just any day, but world premiere day. And not just any premiere, but @esapekkasalonen’s Tiu (2023) for @LAPhil, celebrating the first 20 years of the Walt Disney Concert Hall - with palindromes, reverse time, clouds, spatial fanfares and whatnot!!💙 #AdventuresInMusic – at Los Angeles, CA
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From @esquire's 90th anniversary issue: the great Karen Russell writes, "We cannot succeed if we cannot imagine (and articulate) vivid alternatives to apocalypse." esquire.com/news-politics/a4…

What If Things Get Better?

As the predictions of climate scientists become reality, imagining a better future can feel impossible. But hope might be right beneath our feet.

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This is so for reading right now--@granta essay by @edvulliamy + his playlist notes (yours are always amazing, too @sashafrerejones) granta.com/my-writing-playli… granta.com/music-in-ukraine/

My Writing Playlist | Ed Vulliamy | Granta

Ed Vulliamy on the nine best songs to listen to while you write.

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Strong essay in @esquire by @kyledillonhertz
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So glad you posted...look forward to listening to it.
Philip Glass@philipglass30 Aug 2023
On this day, 30 August 1992, Philip Glass's Symphony No.1 "Low" premiered in Munich, Germany. Based on the music of @DavidBowieReal and @brianeno, Low Symphony was part of a trilogy of symphonies with Heroes (1996) and Lodger (2019): youtu.be/kb-5xktk_rU?si=BLA6…
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Wonderful guest essay by @RealJoeLevy for @sashafrerejones about the Tom Verlaine book sale in NYC...and much more. How much do our books really tell about us? substack.sashafrerejones.com…
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