Readings

  This is New York (E.B. White)

  Synthetic Sublime (C. Ozick)

Opera (Die Zauberflöte/The Magic Flute)

Opera guide and the Libretto (on the website click on the letter “E” for the English  translation; “D” for the German text)

Video Highlights: first, watch this video from the San Francisco Opera on “What is an Aria”

Now listen to Tamino’s aria when he sees Pamina’s portrait (it is often called the portrait aria) from The Magic Flute sung by Fritz Wunderlich, a lyric tenor.

Dance (Bill T. Jones–selections)

  Still/Here Video Excerpt

Zita Allen, History Behind Still/Here

Arlene Croce, Discussing the Undiscussable

Exhibition (Museum of the City of New York: Jeff Liao)

Roslyn Bernstein “Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao’s New York: Assembled Realities”