Lawrence Cultural Council Mission Statement: Activities receiving support from the council must take place in the city and serve all facets of the population from children to the elderly. Grants may be submitted from individuals, schools, artists, and cultural groups. Funds are awarded through a grant process.
As Lady Macbeth puts it, what's done cannot be undone.The Lawrence Cultural Council is a volunteer group comprised of Lawrencians, appointed by the Mayor to disperse funds awarded to the city from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. The debates will never be resolved because they can't be. There is endless discussion and exhaustive intellectual acrobatics to separate their artistic achievements from their politics, prejudices and misdeeds, to exonerate and forgive them. Although appreciation of artists who collaborated with the regime in varying degrees, actively or passively, has continued, just as appreciation of the works of Richard Wagner has continued notwithstanding his rabid anti-Semitism, the reputations of all these artists and composers are eternally tarnished and dogged.
We also know those whose records were more equivocal: Richard Strauss and Kirsten Flagstad, to name a few. We also know the ones who didn't: Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Herbert von Karajan, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner, to name a few. We know who they were, the ones who spoke out and resisted, who put their careers on the line to protest what was happening in Germany: Arturo Toscanini, Lauritz Melchior and Lotte Lehmann, to name a few. Also featured in On The Future of Wagnerism Mass on Gays, Putin, Russia and the Metropolitan Opera His life partner of 40 years, Arnie Kantrowitz died 1/21/22 from complications of COVID. Author/ActivistĪ recently retired physician specializing in addiction medicine, Mass resides in New York City. Forster, and the Year that Changed Literature, was published in 2017. His book, The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. He is writing a biography of Larry Kramer, to be published by Crown, and worked on the book as a 2019-2020 fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Goldstein received a PhD in English from the City University of New York Graduate Center. A recently retired physician specializing in addiction medicine, Mass resides in New York City.īill Goldstein reviews books and interviews authors for NBC's Weekend Today in New York, and was the founding editor of The New York Times books website. Mass has written widely on medicine, health and culture for mainstream and specialist publications. The sequel to that memoir is the current collection, On the Future of Wagnerism: Art, Intoxication, Addiction, Codependence and Recovery. He is the author/editor of an anthology, We Must Love One Another Or Die: The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer, and the author a memoir, Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite: Being Gay and Jewish in America. He is the author of Homosexuality and Sexuality: Dialogues of the Sexual Revolution, Volume 1, and Homosexuality as Behavior and Identity: Dialogues of The Sexual Revolution, Volume 2. Mass, M.D., is a co-founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis and was the first to write about AIDS in the press. Additionally, Larry & Bill reflect on the recent loss of Mass's life partner, gay activist and writer Arnie Kantrowitz. An open discussion on a range of subjects - from art, addiction and AIDS to Larry Kramer, Richard Wagner and the future. Larry Mass and Bill Goldstein discuss the release of Larry Mass's more recent book, On the Future of Wagnerism: Art, Intoxication, Addiction, Codependence and Recovery, the sequel to his memoir, Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite: Being Gay and Jewish in America.
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