Monthly Archives: July 2020

The Wandering Musician

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

Perhaps no other genre in classical music is as intensely Romantic as the Wanderlieder cycle, the song cycle depicting the adventurous peregrinations of a young wayfarer.*    Such cycles represent the epitome of 19th century male subject position as poet, composer, … Continue reading →

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Heine & Schubert’s “Der Doppelgänger”

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

Franz Schubert’s seminal song “Der Doppelgänger” (1828) is suspended in a unique historical and stylistic moment of classical music, with its ostinato piano part looking back to Bach’s passacaglia and its declamatory vocal part looking forward to Wagner’s Sprechgesang.  It … Continue reading →

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The protesters’ raised hands

Posted on July 3, 2020 by Vassilis Lambropoulos

Today, as riot police dispersed the last protesters in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest area, which became an “autonomous zone” for the past two weeks as part of nation-wide protests against police brutality, images of the zone’s creation and operation … Continue reading →

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