Brian Lenz

Brian Lenz is a singer, songwriter, playwright, and teacher. He likes music and people and Minneapolis, preferably all together.

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  • Maritime Whimsy

    Review

    Here’s a subjective question for you: Do you prefer your art to be fully understandable or more abstract? Would you...

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  • Perfect Vulnerability

    Editorial

    What do you find more compelling; perfection or vulnerability? Pardon the existential nature of my introduction (that’s kind of how...

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  • Small stage, big laughs

    Review

    The name Mozart, like Shakespeare, bears a certain weight. It has become synonymous with ‘perfection’ and elicits an expectation from...

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  • Swinging for the fences

    Review

    In my earliest memory of baseball I’m probably four years old. At dusk on a summertime farm in Iowa I remember...

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  • How It's Made | Opera

    Interview

    Do you remember the 1984 film Amadeus? Particularly the scene in which the genius protagonist is bedridden and needs...

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  • A Lesson in Laughter

    Review

    Remember “The Godfather” movies? I only saw them once but certain scenes are burned into my memory so hard they’ll...

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