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Subject: David Yearsley

  • Jeez, Somebody Really Doesn't Like the Looks of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts

    That somebody is Cornell University associate music professor David Yearsley, whose university bio says that during the past two decades, he's "immersed himself in the musical culture of the German Baroque." He's certainly going for baroque with this intriguingly punctuated essay posted to Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair's CounterPunch, in which he writes of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts:Have a look at Dallas's biggest-most expensive-in-the-world arts project floating in a g

    June 5, 2009
  • Behold, the Benighted Concrete Prairie

    Justin TerveenYup, stole that headline from the poetry of one David Yearsley, the Cornell U. prof soon to be the subject of our newly christened interview series "Dude, Seriously, What the Fuck." Till then, we send you into the weekend with this freshly minted image courtesy our old friend Justin Terveen from high atop the Hyatt. Now we must off in search of the nearby bail bondsmen and prostitutes.

    June 5, 2009
  • From Ithaca, New York, An Apology to the Citizens of Dallas. And, An Explanation.

    David YearsleyDuring the weekend, I exchanged a few e-mails with David Yearsley, the Cornell University associate music professor who, as you'll no doubt recall, attacked the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts with all the subtlety of a Longhorn bull mounting a comely heifer. Turns out, more than a few Friends of Unfair Park also reached out to the prof via e-mail and gave him the ol' proud-Texan what-for. So happens a couple even agreed with some of his points, but took great offense at the

    June 8, 2009
  • Dope opera: A New York music prof takes aim at Dallas' new arts center. Misses.

    June 11, 2009