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Cris Derksen with the Orchestre Métropolitain
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Cover Letter for Submission of New Drug Gretamine for Emergency-Use FDA Authorization, Submitted by High Tide Therapeutics Ltd. on February…
To whom it may concern: Four years ago, researchers at Yale University first characterized the mental health epidemic of chronic climate dysphoria—a…
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February 2024

Classical Music's Diversity Fat Cats
A nonprofit may not be doing much good, but its leading couple is doing very well.
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August 2023

Southern Orchestra Executive Director Pushing to “Do Away with Blind Auditions”
The 1970s innovation of blind auditions—in which auditioning musicians are heard but not seen—was a monumental step for fair hiring in orchestras…
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June 2023

May 2023

Ewelldämmerung
Music theory's woke emperor has no clothes.
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March 2023

Insult without Injury
Representational Sin at the Oscars
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Hey folks, I'm bi
...musical
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February 2023

Don's Weekly Listen
Each generation projects its own musical tastes onto the past. Our own era’s bias (when we are not busying ourselves canonizing Florence Price), tends…
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Don's Weekly Listen: An Eclectic Suite
Happy Thursday! For this week’s Listen, we will be touring a seldom-explored corner of the repertoire: works for piano solo and string orchestra only…
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I Promise I'm not John McWhorter
And Don's Weekly Listen
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January 2023

Moving on from Alex Ross
Don's latest in City Journal
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