First posts first.

This will all be an attempt, a work in progress.

One point, though: the title comes from the final “duet” of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Elektra. As their brother Orest sweeps through the palace in victory, Chrysothemis asks her sister if she can hear the clamor of rebellion within, the rejoicing, the slaughter, the lighting of a thousand torches. Elektra retorts, “Can I not hear it? Can I not hear the music? Surely it comes from me!”

Author: Ryan M. Prendergast

Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the School of Music and the School of Drama. Research in theater, opera, music, media, art, history, and esoteric detritus. I smile, of course, and go on drinking tea. View all posts by Ryan M. Prendergast