Robert's Writing Elsewhere
RECENT POLITICAL WORK
Canvassing for the Commons: Towards a Party- and Consciousness-Building Strategy Rooted in Gramsci’s “Common Sense” (Socialist Forum)
All Is Calm, All Is Bright: Christmas, Climate Change, and the Dialectics of Winter (Monthly Review)
Patagonia’s Greenwashing Ignores Workers and Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis (Truthout.org)
Spotify Itself is Misinformation
(New Politics)
New York Isn’t Really Taking Our Energy Future Seriously
(Gotham Gazette)
New York Needs Publicly-Owned Utilities, Not Sham Stakeholder Participation
(City Limits)
The Stubborn Classism of Classical Music
(The New Republic)
Ten Aphorism on Capitalism, COVID-19, and the Climate Crisis
(New Politics)
RECENT ARTS WORK
Apartheid Swing: The Jazz Epistles’ Short-Lived Success
(BAM)
Program Notes: Leroux, Mitchell, and Abrahamsen
(San Fransisco Contemporary Music Players)
ALPHABETICAL BY PUBLICATION
4COLUMNS
Review: Anatomy Theater / David Lang, Mark Dion
Review: Calder Quartet / Morton Feldman String Quartet No.2
ALBANY TIMES-UNION
There’s No Gas Shortage, So Scrap the Williams Pipeline
BAM (LINKS BROKEN, TBC)
A Moveable Hemingway: Malpaso Dance Company at BAM
The Giving Tree: Phantom Limb’s Memory Rings
Prokofiev Lyrical, Prokofiev Grotesque
Giving Shape to an Explosion: Sasha Waltz with Edgard Varèse
Schubert and Sinatra Walk Into A Bar
Dr. John and New Orleans Piano
Einstein on the Blog: A Short Glossary
Subtle Decadence: Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker and Ars Subtilior
Kindred Spirits: Maeterlinck, Freud, and The Master Builder
Auguste Rodin and the Royal Ballet of Cambodia
Fail To Your Heart’s Content: Courtley Love and David Lang’s love fail
BRAVO! VAIL MUSIC FESTIVAL
On the Rise: Conductor Jaap van Zweden
BROOKLYN BRED
Questlove’s Electronic Music Mash-Up at BAM
Crowd-Sourcing Coleridge, Fiona Shaw, and More
THE BROOKLYN RAIL
10 Years of the Jalopy Theatre
CITYLIMITS.ORG
New York Needs Publicly-Owned Utilities, Not Sham Stakeholder Participation
Cuomo Shouldn’t Let a Monopoly Decide the Fate of the Williams Pipeline
GOTHAM GAZETTE
New York Isn’t Really Taking Our Energy Future Seriously
The Williams Pipeline Came Back from the Dead—But the Shellfish Won’t
THE INDYPENDENT
On September 6, I’ll Rise to Stop the Williams Pipeline
MONTHLY REVIEW
All Is Calm, All Is Bright: Christmas, Climate Change, and the Dialectics of Winter
NEW POLITICS
Spotify Itself is Misinformation
Ten Aphorism on Capitalism, COVID-19, and the Climate Crisis
THE NEW REPUBLIC
The Stubborn Classism of Classical Music
SAN FRANCISCO CONTEMPORARY MUSIC PLAYERS
Program Notes: Leroux, Mitchell, Abrahamsen
Program Notes: Byron, Brown, Fung, Monk, Rzewski, and Zorn
Program Notes: Ustvolskaya, Berio, Oliveros, Xenakis, Oram, Feldman, etc.
TRUTHOUT.ORG
Patagonia’s Greenwashing Ignores Workers and Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis
WQXR
Celebrating Summer with Beethoven’s “Pastoral”
6 Chilling Works to Combat the Summer Heat
UNPUBLISHED (LINKS BROKEN, STAY TUNED…)
Nonesuch Records at BAM: Footnotes to a Festival
ACADEMIC
At the Threshold: Edgard Varèse, Modernism, and the Experience of Modernity
MULTIMEDIA WORK (LINKS BROKEN, STAY TUNED…)
Record Your Rime: An Excerpt from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (audio editing)
Interview with Bob Hurwitz and David Bither (interview + text editing)