Scratching Chalkboards Just Won’t Cut it Anymore
In terms of auditory torture, we Americans clearly have to step up our game. Look at what the Germans have come up with: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2008/07/06/cage-slow-organ.html. The threshold of boredom in church has just been taking to daring new heights, my friends.
And this is what you get when a Canadian director pairs up with Placido Domingo and Howard Shore to put on a new opera in France: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/story/2008/07/03/f-cronenberg-fly-opera.html.

