Wayne Koestenbaum
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Jackie O (opera)...an opera by 20th century American composer, Virgil Thomson. Koestenbaum has written both poetry and non-fiction works on opera and on iconic opera singers like Maria Callas. It is not surprising that in addition to the character of Maria... In this article: Jackie O, Maria Callas, Aristotle Onassis, Wayne Koestenbaum, Houston Grand Opera, Banff Centre, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance, Skorpios, and The Marriage of Figaro |
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The Harbinger. Modern Composers. August 31, 1999
Librettist Wayne Koestenbaum says that the "stylistic model" for the structure ... Saints in Three Acts, which he calls "a bold, earnest, and ethereal epitome of ...
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Jackie O (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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... and directed Prepare for Saints, a documentary about Four Saints in Three Acts. ... Wayne Koestenbaum is the author of five books of prose, including a ...
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Spring 2007, Volume 11, Number 2
Wayne Koestenbaum. Elizabeth Kolbert (TU) (GAZ) Nicole Peyrafitte ( TU) Nahid Rachlin ... He got his act together and went on, stayed in Barbados, got a job as ...
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, Wayne Koestenbaum is an American poet and cultural critic. He received a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.F.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. Currently, he lives in New York City, where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Koestenbaum's work, both in poetry and nonfiction, has explored the social and mental life of American queer intellectuals. His best-known critical book, The Queen's Throat, is a rigorous exploration of a phenomenon frequently discussed casually but seldom considered from a scholarly viewpoint: the predilection of gay men for opera. Koestenbaum's claim is that opera derives its power from a kind of physical sympathy between singer and audience that has as much to do with desire as with hearing. He says of the act of listening:
:The dance of sound waves on the tympanum, and the sigh I exhale in sympathy with the singer, persuade me that I have a body—if only by analogy, if only a second-best copy of the singer's body. I'm a lemming, imprinted by the soprano, my existence an aftereffect of her crescendo. (42)
Koestenbaum's conclusion is that gay men's affinity for opera tells us as much about opera and its inherent questions about masculinity as it does about homosexuality.
In Hotel Theory, a critical discussion of the meaning of hotel life, and the aesthetic implications of such isolation, runs concurrently with a fictionalised account of a hotel encounter between Liberace and Lana Turner.
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