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Matthew Gurewitsch

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As seen in: AIR MAIL, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, The New Criterion, Musical America, Classical Voice North America
Covers:  The fine and performing arts, books
Doesn't Cover: Food, politics
writer, speaker, opera director (once), novelist (once)

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Matthew Gurewitsch’s Biography

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[PIC] 18 || right || [/PIC]Matthew Gurewitsch is an internationally oriented cultural commentator. After three decades in Manhattan, he moved to Hawaii full-time in Manhattan in 2011. He has been covering classical music for the electronic newsletter AIR MAIL (www.airmail.news) since it launched in 2019.

Matthew's interests span the fine arts as well as the arts of performance. After a decade as a senior editor of Connoisseur magazine, he went independent in the early 1990s, building an extensi…

Matthew Gurewitsch’s Journalist Portfolio

MUSIC; The Opera That Chooses the Nuclear Option (Published 2005)

MUSIC; The Opera That Chooses the Nuclear Option (Published 2005)

JULY 16, 1945. The gadget, as the scientists are calling it, has been hoisted up its tower. Gen. Leslie Grove…

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True Colors

True Colors

Archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann insists his eye-popping reproductions of ancient Greek sculptures are right o…

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Island in the Stream

Island in the Stream

By Matthew Gurewitsch - Rapa Nui belongs to Chile the way Hawaii belongs to the United States. Since European…

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Forget the Callas Legend

Forget the Callas Legend

The reissued official Callas discography reveals the art that will last, which the diva's image often obscures

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Rediscovering An American Classic By Way of Britain; A Country of Lesser Giants (Published 1999)

Rediscovering An American Classic By Way of Britain; A Country of Lesser Giants (Published 1999)

Matthew Gurewitsch article holds American theatrical dramas do not and cannot live up to classics because the…

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Rediscovering An American Classic By Way of Britain; A Country of Lesser Giants (Published 1999)

Rediscovering An American Classic By Way of Britain; A Country of Lesser Giants (Published 1999)

Matthew Gurewitsch article holds American theatrical dramas do not and cannot live up to classics because the…

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Articles

The "better than" gambit Down with a most odious comparison

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By Matthew Gurewitsch Verified
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In August 2013, two years after our family traded the Upper West Side of Manhattan for Hawaii's Valley Isle, the Maui Academy of Performing Arts put on Les Misérables, a mammoth project involving 58 actors, an offstage chorus of 17, and a 26-piece live orchestra. The director was David C. Johnston, a mainland-born and -trained Svengali who fetched up on Maui in 1992 and never looked back, forging community players of varying talent along with the occasional seasoned pro into quality ensembles.
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall Gemini Pro 3.1 speaks with "total grammatical authority"

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By Matthew Gurewitsch Verified
| beyondcriticism.com
On June 15, The New Yorker published Alex Ross's article "Jürgen Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age: The great German philosopher, who died in March, understood how much depended on a principled public sphere." Philosophy is out of my depth, pretty much, but the sharp intelligence at work in Alex's prize-winning music journalism and books is well known to me, and his subtitle struck an instant spark with the enlightened, responsible denizen of Spaceship Earth I aspire to be.
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From the archives: Gary Oldman (1990) Has he changed? Yes! And miraculously, no@

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| beyondcriticism.com
\ Gary Oldman—our vote for best screen actor of the year If the movies he has played in tell the truth about him, Gary Oldman is not scared of the dark. He courts it; he revels in it; he flies to it like the moth to the flame. His face is never more radiant than an instant before the lights go out. Oldman's career is still young. Sid and Nancy, in which he made his film debut, came out four years ago; Prick Up Your Ears, a year later.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, indeed.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Imaginatively. Briefly.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

I like Plaud, an AI device the size of a credit card that records and transcribes with great accuracy and can also summarize.