Tuesday, February 09, 2016

Tuesday Miscellany

Christine Goerke, who recently made her role debut as the Siegfried Brunnhilde in the Canadian Opera Company's production of that opera, gave a hilarious interview to Robert Harris of The Globe and Mail...The Berkeley (Early Music) Festival has posted its 2016 schedule, although I've received no press release or other publicity about it. Unfortunately, it's opposite both the San Francisco Silent Film Festival and Ojai....Cal Bach has an attractive program of Carissimi, Charpentier, and Schütz. coming up the last weekend of February. They perform in SF, Palo Alto, and Berkeley....Opera Parallele and SFJAZZ present Terence Blanchard's Champion at SFJAZZ, from February 19 to 28....Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg is leaving New Century Chamber Orchestra after the 2016-17 season...

7 comments:

Joshua Kosman said...

I have a favor to ask though: Please stop referring to Schütz as "Schuetz." It's not 1965 anymore; this is well within our technological capacity.

Diacritics: Know 'em. Learn 'em. Use 'em.

Lisa Hirsch said...

Ahaha, your copy-editor gene coming to the fore! Don't I get credit for handling Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla correctly?

Well, I suppose that proves your point.

Lisa Hirsch said...

And I have fixed Schütz after remembering that it's one of the diacriticals for which I remember the key combo.

Joshua Kosman said...

Your MGT mastery is fucking awesome. As, indeed, is your coinage of the TLA.

Lisa Hirsch said...

I must confess to CHEATING on her full name: the magic of copy & paste. But I swear to learn the key combinations for the diacriticals before her first recording is released.

Anonymous said...

Or you can do what I do: I've made a Word document with all the diacriticals I've come across (I get them either by copying and pasting from the source, or by inserting them from the symbols tool in Word). Then I copy and paste from that document when I need to. Learning the key combinations feels like too much trouble.

Lisa Hirsch said...

My equivalent is bookmarking a page with Macintosh key combinations for diacriticals. For one thing, I am Microsoft-free.