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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Sigh...

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If you're expecting or hoping to see me in Seattle for the Ring, alas, work pressures caught up and I am in Oakland working working wor...
Sunday, August 07, 2005

Dress Codes: Free the Men of Music@Menlo!

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There's been plenty of discussion in the blogosphere about the sometimes-stulifying atmosphere of classical concerts. I myself am on the...

Music@Menlo's Steinway

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To the Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms program at Music@Menlo last night (see my SFCV review on Tuesday), and I must comment on the piano - I wi...
Thursday, August 04, 2005

Semi-Hiatus

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Some blog postings are in the works, but delayed by the fact that for the rest of the month I'm in system release heck, if not hell. I k...
Friday, July 29, 2005

Minor Fame

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Yesterday when I got home, I found that a copy of a book called Reviewing the Arts, by Campbell Tichener, had arrived in the mail. It's...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Doctor Atomic Cast Change

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Playbill reports that San Francisco Opera has announced Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's withdrawal from Doctor Atomic on doctors' orders...
Monday, July 18, 2005

Berkeley Opera

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My review of the Berkeley Opera potted Meistersinger will be up at SFCV tomorrow; suffice it to say that the performance is a mixed bag, b...
Monday, July 11, 2005

MIT Weblog Survey

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Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Abridging the Classics

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Today's Times brings a report that the Metropolitan Opera plans to present a 90-minute version of The Magic Flute. ACD is predictabl...
Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Head. Wall. Bang.

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Earlier this week, Anne Midgette had an excellent article in the NY Times about the disappearing classical music audience, how orchestras s...
Monday, June 27, 2005

Readings for a New Opera 3

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From The Making of the Atomic Bomb , p. 274-275: The following Saturday Oppenheimer discussed the discovery [of fission] in a letter to a fr...

Readings for a New Opera 2

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Occasional quotations from whatever I'm reading as background material for Doctor Atomic ; this, again, from The Making of the Atomic Bo...
Sunday, June 26, 2005

Sing-In Season

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The Oakland Symphony Chorus's summer sing-in series starts in just a couple of weeks. It will run from July 12 to August 23 on Tuesday ...
Saturday, June 25, 2005

Events for a New Opera

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The San Francisco Opera Web site now has an extensive listing of events related to the premiere of Doctor Atomic . (It is also mirrored a...
Friday, June 24, 2005

Usability and the Orchestra Web Site

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Last September, Drew McManus reviewed the Web sites of some 70 American orchestras. San Francisco Symphony's ranked number 8 at the ti...
Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Keeping Score in Fresno?!

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Buried in David Wiegand's S. F. Chronicle arts column today is this item: Score one more for Keeping Score, the San Francisco Symphony...

Readings for a New Opera 1

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Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb : In London, where Southampton Row passes Russell Square, across from the British Museum in Bl...
Tuesday, June 21, 2005

New Wagnerian Voices

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I've been lucky enough, in the last year or so, to hear three new major Wagnerian voices. "Or so" is because I first heard Lin...
Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Making the Rounds

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Tim Rutherford-Johnson tossed this week's meme to anyone who wanted to respond. That'll be me, for one. Total volume of music on my...
Tuesday, May 31, 2005

A Concert You Might Take a Friend To

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The International Orange Chorale of San Francisco is giving what sounds like a fantastic concert this coming Sunday, June 5, 2005, at 8 p.m....
Thursday, May 26, 2005

I Took My Mother to the Orchestra....

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...for an all-R. Strauss concert at San Francisco Symphony. Read her thoughts on the concert and mine . Updated May 26 :You can hear this c...
Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Really Bad News for the Classical Recording Business

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The London Appeals Court decision against Hyperion Records, in a lawsuit bought by musicologist Lionel Sawkins, will seriously affect Hyperi...
Monday, May 23, 2005

Sex and the Young Violinist

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A few weeks ago, I asked a newish friend what kind of music he likes. "Classical, especially Bach; rock; some jazz," he replied. T...
Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Mystery Music

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Can you identity this charming excerpt, which is part of the "Hansel and Gretel" ballet that Ronn Guidi created for the Oakland B...

Take a Friend to the Orchestra, Part II

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My TAFTO contribution is up now! Many thanks to Drew for the kind words; thanks also to Zaka Ashraf for giving me a couple of ideas for th...