Grant Hayter-Menzies's Writings
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Nov.09.2011
Willamette Week (2002-2005)
A fair sampling of my work as music and art journalist for Willamette Week, Portland's alternative weekly, from 2002-2005.
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Aug.10.2011
To my accused forebears: "Die Lang Katt": one of the lucky ones; to Margaretha Fritz, not so lucky.
Her name was Ann Hibbins, and even in the midst of being tried as a witch before the Boston magistrates in May of 1656 she was addressed not by the familiar, somewhat patronizing "Goodwife", but as Mistress Hibbins. This was only in keeping for...
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Aug.28.2010
The Belle of Amherst
by William Luce
Performed by Julie Harris at A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle, November 2000
By Grant Hayter-Menzies
Much energy is given, in this age of surface appeal, to a performer's appearance. Every actor must flex his physical if not his aesthetic biceps, every actress march through at least one play or film stark naked,...
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Feb.26.2010
Opera News
Tchaikovsky’s epic nationalist drama Mazeppa has its Met broadcast premiere this month. Does the opera offer clues about its composer’s own dark nights of the soul? GRANT HAYTER-MENZIES looks at the evidence.
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Oct.18.2009
Red Room Original
When I accepted the invitation to present on Billie Burke, subject of my most recent biography, at the International Wizard of Oz Club's annual convention in Wamego, Kansas, earlier this month, I wondered--much like Dorothy after landing in Oz--what I had got myself into.
I am no Oz expert. Far from it--Billie Burke played Glinda the Good Witch in the 1939 MGM...
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Sep.03.2009
Black Lamb, a Portland-based literary magazine
Among published accounts of gay men concerning when they first knew they were gay, you will find a good many threads of similar texture and color: “I knew I was gay when I first sat next to blue-eyed Bill Jones in 6th grade…” or “I knew I was gay when I found myself thinking of my brother-in-law every time I kissed my wife.” For myself, I can say that the first...
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About Grant
Grant Hayter-Menzies is the author of "Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling", "The Empress and Mrs. Conger: The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds", both published by Hong Kong University Press, and the first biographies of stage...
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Grant’s Favorite Books
A few books and authors I can read over and over again: "The Mill on The Floss"; "Black Lamb & Grey Falcon"; "A Dream of Red Mansions"; "A Distant Mirror...
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