Katelyn Simone, Arts and Social Impact Writer
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Arts and culture journalism

San Francisco Chronicle

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"The journey to Angel Island is personal for this San Francisco string quartet"

A conversation with the Del Sol Quartet as they launch a chamber music series at a former immigrant detention center

Opera America

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​"Music to Their Ears: Opera education in the digital age"

How companies across the U.S. are innovating to bring more opera to more young listeners.
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"New and Noteworthy: American opera's upcoming world premieres"

 A roundup of new American operas debuting in the 2024-2025 season.

San Francisco Classical Voice

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"Bringing Morgiane, the First African American Opera, Back to Life"

The most important piece of American music you've never heard is debuting in the 2024-2025 season--138 years after it was written.
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"Letter From Sun Valley: New Music by Quinn Mason and James Ehnes’s Brahms Concerto"

Concert review from Idaho's Sun Valley Festival

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"Imagining Nikola Tesla: Phil Kline’s New Opera Searches for the Man Behind the Myth"

In conversation with composer Phil Kline about setting one of history's greatest and most eccentric geniuses to music.

Classical Voice North America

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"Denk Celebrates Ives, That Thorny American, In Anniversary Recital"

In conversation with Jeremy Denk ahead of his tribute to Ives with a performance of the ‘Concord’ Sonata at the 92nd St. Y New York.
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"In first-time collaboration, opera visionaries Aucoin and Sellars give voice to the planet"

Insight from Peter Sellars and Matthew Aucoin on Music for New Bodies, a "synesthetic song cycle."
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"60 Years On, Exploring Resonance Between John Cage And Japan"

An insightful series at Japan Society broke the silence on the  two-way artistic dialogue between Cage and the Japanese avant-garde.

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"​The Delicacy Of Suicide As Lyric Reflection In Lang’s ‘note to a friend’" for Classical Voice North America

Based on the writings of Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, David Lang’s new opera score and libretto remain true to Akutagawa’s sentiment on being “duty bound to be honest” about the decision to take his own life.
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Seen and Heard International

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"Beatrice di Tenda re-enters the repertoire with an incisive production at Paris’s Opéra Bastille" for Seen and Heard International

In conversation with director Peter Sellars about his first Italian opera and the most transgressive work by Bellini you've never heard.

OperaWire

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"Opera Meets Film: Peter Sellars’ ‘this body is so impermanent’"

Artists across disciplines explore an ancient Buddhist text for a modern meditation on illness and health.


Clyde Fitch Report, the nexus of art and politics

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"Calling 'Doctor Atomic': In Santa Fe, Peter Sellars Revisits the Bomb"
An interview with the legendary director as the landmark opera exploring the power--and angst--of Robert Oppenheimer opens in Santa Fe.

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"In the Age of #MeToo, I'm Thinking About Yuja Wang"
On the glass ceiling of women's concert attire.


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"Omaha's Under the Radar Festival is OUTR of this World"
Inclusive, experimental art in Nebraska.
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"Must be the Bourbon: Inclusive Classical Music in Kentucky"
The Louisville Orchestra has nourished a community around new music for decades.
Katelyn Simone, Arts Writer
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