Pop Life
Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
Throughout pop-culture history, we’ve seen the rise of pop music, Pop art, and most recently, pop opera. Fred Plotkin, author of the book Opera 101, examines the art of making an old opera new again, or in the case of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge (pictured), staging dramatic dialogue as musical spectacle. Plus, pianist and scholar Beth Levin discusses Robert Schumann’s Davidsbundlertanze, which the composer wrote in an attempt to illustrate his battle against pop culture in the early 1800s.
