HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a weekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditional Haiku form of 5x7x5 syllables, others might be a sonnet or a string of words together. This week Peter Frank, George Heymont, and Laurence Vittes give quick takes on performing and visual art from San Francisco to New York. Is there a show or performance that you think people should know about? Write a Haiku with a link and shine a light on something you think is noteworthy too.
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WHAT: Mozart and the Nazis:How the Third Reich abused a cultural icon
By Erik Levi
Yale University Press, 324 pages
HAIKU REVIEW: Erik Levi's bewildering use of a reality-distorting narrative which is itself laced with detail after detail of how Mozart collaborated with the Third Reich with no more shame than Wagner did in his much more loud, obnoxious and perhaps heartfelt way. It raises the question of why the Allies continued to play the great German composers during WWII, or even immediately after. It was a battle for human souls on a cosmic scope that could quickly provide the basis for a classical music movie reboot. - Laurence Vittes
HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a weekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditional Haiku form of 5x7x5 syllables, others might be...
HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a weekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditional Haiku form of 5x7x5 syllables, others might be...
First Posted: 02/25/11 01:00 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:35 PM ET