Joseph Cermatori
@cermatori.bsky.social
criticism - literature, art, & performance 🌿
associate professor @ skidmore college
www.josephcermatori.com
associate professor @ skidmore college
www.josephcermatori.com
Yum! Happy Thanksgiving to you too.
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Yum! Happy Thanksgiving to you too.
“UChicago is just one of multiple highly selective universities—including Boston University and the University of Pennsylvania—that have announced over the past year that they were freezing or scaling back Ph.D. admissions and programs amid financial pressures and other factors.”
More UChicago Ph.D. Programs Will Pause Admissions
The arts and humanities dean said “nearly all” faculty leaders preferred “a broader pause for the division.” Some social sciences programs also aren’t accepting new students.
www.insidehighered.com
August 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
“UChicago is just one of multiple highly selective universities—including Boston University and the University of Pennsylvania—that have announced over the past year that they were freezing or scaling back Ph.D. admissions and programs amid financial pressures and other factors.”
Grateful for the glimpses I had of his world, however fleeting. He was a great light in darkness.
August 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Grateful for the glimpses I had of his world, however fleeting. He was a great light in darkness.
(14/14)
And Bob appears near the end of 'Baroque Modernity' (pp. 185–86)...
A passage that allowed me space to reflect on his monumental presence in the contemporary theater — and on all that Watermill summer had stirred up in me. #BaroqueModernity #baroque
And Bob appears near the end of 'Baroque Modernity' (pp. 185–86)...
A passage that allowed me space to reflect on his monumental presence in the contemporary theater — and on all that Watermill summer had stirred up in me. #BaroqueModernity #baroque
August 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
(14/14)
And Bob appears near the end of 'Baroque Modernity' (pp. 185–86)...
A passage that allowed me space to reflect on his monumental presence in the contemporary theater — and on all that Watermill summer had stirred up in me. #BaroqueModernity #baroque
And Bob appears near the end of 'Baroque Modernity' (pp. 185–86)...
A passage that allowed me space to reflect on his monumental presence in the contemporary theater — and on all that Watermill summer had stirred up in me. #BaroqueModernity #baroque
(13/14)
...a meditation on grief and grace. That short review is available online here < bit.ly/4514Tkb >.
...a meditation on grief and grace. That short review is available online here < bit.ly/4514Tkb >.
August 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
(13/14)
...a meditation on grief and grace. That short review is available online here < bit.ly/4514Tkb >.
...a meditation on grief and grace. That short review is available online here < bit.ly/4514Tkb >.
(12/14)
But I was fortunate to have the chance to write about him several times. For 'PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art,' I reviewed 'Adam’s Passion' (2015), a visionary music-theater collaboration with Arvo Pärt inspired by the Biblical tale of Adam...
But I was fortunate to have the chance to write about him several times. For 'PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art,' I reviewed 'Adam’s Passion' (2015), a visionary music-theater collaboration with Arvo Pärt inspired by the Biblical tale of Adam...
August 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
(12/14)
But I was fortunate to have the chance to write about him several times. For 'PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art,' I reviewed 'Adam’s Passion' (2015), a visionary music-theater collaboration with Arvo Pärt inspired by the Biblical tale of Adam...
But I was fortunate to have the chance to write about him several times. For 'PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art,' I reviewed 'Adam’s Passion' (2015), a visionary music-theater collaboration with Arvo Pärt inspired by the Biblical tale of Adam...
(11/14)
On the rehearsal stage, while he was demonstrating the precise and elegant gestures he desired from his actors, he seemed oracular, otherworldly.
On the rehearsal stage, while he was demonstrating the precise and elegant gestures he desired from his actors, he seemed oracular, otherworldly.
August 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
(11/14)
On the rehearsal stage, while he was demonstrating the precise and elegant gestures he desired from his actors, he seemed oracular, otherworldly.
On the rehearsal stage, while he was demonstrating the precise and elegant gestures he desired from his actors, he seemed oracular, otherworldly.
(10/14)
Although I got to observe Bob's rehearsals for a fortnight, I only got to meet him once or twice. He could be stern and forbidding in person.
Although I got to observe Bob's rehearsals for a fortnight, I only got to meet him once or twice. He could be stern and forbidding in person.
August 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
(10/14)
Although I got to observe Bob's rehearsals for a fortnight, I only got to meet him once or twice. He could be stern and forbidding in person.
Although I got to observe Bob's rehearsals for a fortnight, I only got to meet him once or twice. He could be stern and forbidding in person.
(9/14)
And as recently as March of this year, his work commanded attention: I'm so grateful I had the chance to see 'Mary Said What She Said' (his latest collaboration with Darryl Pinckney and Isabelle Huppert) when it played at NYU's Skirball Center. @nyuskirball.bsky.social
And as recently as March of this year, his work commanded attention: I'm so grateful I had the chance to see 'Mary Said What She Said' (his latest collaboration with Darryl Pinckney and Isabelle Huppert) when it played at NYU's Skirball Center. @nyuskirball.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
(9/14)
And as recently as March of this year, his work commanded attention: I'm so grateful I had the chance to see 'Mary Said What She Said' (his latest collaboration with Darryl Pinckney and Isabelle Huppert) when it played at NYU's Skirball Center. @nyuskirball.bsky.social
And as recently as March of this year, his work commanded attention: I'm so grateful I had the chance to see 'Mary Said What She Said' (his latest collaboration with Darryl Pinckney and Isabelle Huppert) when it played at NYU's Skirball Center. @nyuskirball.bsky.social
(8/14)
And then — what an experience it was to see the revival of 'Einstein on the Beach' live at BAM @bambrooklyn.bsky.social in 2012. Another revelation.
And then — what an experience it was to see the revival of 'Einstein on the Beach' live at BAM @bambrooklyn.bsky.social in 2012. Another revelation.
August 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
(8/14)
And then — what an experience it was to see the revival of 'Einstein on the Beach' live at BAM @bambrooklyn.bsky.social in 2012. Another revelation.
And then — what an experience it was to see the revival of 'Einstein on the Beach' live at BAM @bambrooklyn.bsky.social in 2012. Another revelation.
(7/14)
These melodies were composed when opera was in its infancy, when Shakespeare was alive and walking the earth — and they were now being reimagined by Wilson, whose work André Breton had once praised as “the baroque of the future.”
These melodies were composed when opera was in its infancy, when Shakespeare was alive and walking the earth — and they were now being reimagined by Wilson, whose work André Breton had once praised as “the baroque of the future.”
August 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
(7/14)
These melodies were composed when opera was in its infancy, when Shakespeare was alive and walking the earth — and they were now being reimagined by Wilson, whose work André Breton had once praised as “the baroque of the future.”
These melodies were composed when opera was in its infancy, when Shakespeare was alive and walking the earth — and they were now being reimagined by Wilson, whose work André Breton had once praised as “the baroque of the future.”
(6/14)
In the opera's famous ritornello, I felt I could hear its heartbeat: act and repetition, birth and rebirth, death and immortality, all echoing each other in a musical pulse.
In the opera's famous ritornello, I felt I could hear its heartbeat: act and repetition, birth and rebirth, death and immortality, all echoing each other in a musical pulse.
August 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
(6/14)
In the opera's famous ritornello, I felt I could hear its heartbeat: act and repetition, birth and rebirth, death and immortality, all echoing each other in a musical pulse.
In the opera's famous ritornello, I felt I could hear its heartbeat: act and repetition, birth and rebirth, death and immortality, all echoing each other in a musical pulse.
(5/14)
That summer during the evenings, I’d sometimes walk along the Long Island shoreline, score in hand, with Monteverdi’s ghostly strains on repeat through my iPod.
That summer during the evenings, I’d sometimes walk along the Long Island shoreline, score in hand, with Monteverdi’s ghostly strains on repeat through my iPod.
August 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
(5/14)
That summer during the evenings, I’d sometimes walk along the Long Island shoreline, score in hand, with Monteverdi’s ghostly strains on repeat through my iPod.
That summer during the evenings, I’d sometimes walk along the Long Island shoreline, score in hand, with Monteverdi’s ghostly strains on repeat through my iPod.
(4/14)
...to observe two weeks of rehearsals of Monteverdi's 1607 opera 'L'Orfeo,' which Wilson was preparing for a new production at La Scala.
...to observe two weeks of rehearsals of Monteverdi's 1607 opera 'L'Orfeo,' which Wilson was preparing for a new production at La Scala.
August 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
(4/14)
...to observe two weeks of rehearsals of Monteverdi's 1607 opera 'L'Orfeo,' which Wilson was preparing for a new production at La Scala.
...to observe two weeks of rehearsals of Monteverdi's 1607 opera 'L'Orfeo,' which Wilson was preparing for a new production at La Scala.