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...explosion of sound. At times I wasn't sure if I was playing or if I was just along for the ride. My fingers flew up and down the length of the horn; my lips were tense and taut at one turn and lovingly loose at the next; my throat was opening and closing at the will of the horn; and my tongue had a life...
...Queen's Throat: Opera...
Does a "gay culture" really exist? Are there general tendencies in the gay a community towards the same cultural icons and institutions? The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and just released in paperback, Wayne poetic sensitivity, at the same time expressing his deep personal love for the world of grand opera...
...interview, Koestenbaum is genial, affable and frank. He suggest, as does the subtitle of his book, that one of the primary motivations for writing The Queen's Throat is a "desire to explain desire,". And indeed, the book is liberally sprinkled with personal anecdotes that serve to illustrate the many-faceted sensual appeal of the opera world. These range from the visual (such as Joan Sutherland's misaligned and garish lipstick on an album cover or the combination of Renata Tebaldi's ample bosom and her tight costume on the over of Aida) to the aural (Marilyn Horne singing...
Premeds are a much maligned group at Harvard. Not a week goes by when some joke about our little stressed friends appears on the Op-ed pages of some campus journal. The popular stereotype portrays them as cut-throat anal retentive control freaks--a mob of students armed with red-blue black green click pens and mechanical pencils converging on the Science Center en mass at precisely nine o'clock every morning...