Elaine Yao
Elaine Yao is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Formerly a PhD student permanently marooned on NJ Transit en route to the Met, she spent years playing Baroque violin badly enough to love it and well enough to know better. Her musical interests remain divided between the 17th century and the paroxysms of modernity.
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra offered a rending reading of Britten‘s massive War Requiem with an eclectic trio of soloists.
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Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
