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Monday, February 27, 2006

Poetry on Assignment

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I wrote poetry intermittently at various times when I was younger - a lot younger - but only a few poems since I got out of school. It turns...

New in the Times

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A couple of features in the Sunday Times Arts & Leisure section are by apparent newcomers, unless I've missed their bylines: Evan Ei...
Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Losing the Thread

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Jon Carroll , a great columnist who really, really should be syndicated, writes about his granddaughter, horses, and classical music in to...

Ticket Prices - too high, or what?

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Maybe not - I covered a few bases in an article in SFCV, called The High Price of Music . A friend has called to my attention a couple of Ba...
Saturday, February 11, 2006

The Fear

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Daniel J. Wakin's Times article on Peter Gelb and the Met is being received with considerable approval, by Alex Ross and, somewhat to ...

Repertory

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The San Francisco Symphony is touring China. There's an an attractive Web site set up for the event; you can see photos and what they ...
Friday, February 10, 2006

How Very Odd

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Like Alex and M. C- , I am an oboe.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Breaking Up, Part 3

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Michael Renardy reports in comments to a previous posting that the Audubon Quartet has reached a settlement of sorts. An anonymous donor ca...

Upcoming Concerts (with two, two, two choruses!)

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Soli Deo Gloria , with which I've been singing since September, is performing the first weekend of March. Our guest conductor this time ...
Monday, February 06, 2006

Long may he blog!

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Happy 50th birthday to Terry Teachout ! I have a few of those things in common to you - first Presidential election in which I voted, seeing...

Ooops

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Well, I never did get comments written on Berkeley Opera's Falstaff , and now it's over. I hope that no one missed the production on...
Saturday, January 28, 2006

Back soon, really

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There's a system release going out on Tuesday - honestly, this has been an easy release cycle, the first in several years in which I hav...
Wednesday, January 11, 2006

San Francisco Opera, 2006-7

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Janos Gereben, the fastest pen in the West, sent along the schedule, about which I must first say: SEATTLE TRISTAN!!!!!!!!!! I wonder how ma...
Monday, January 09, 2006

Distorted Tunes Test

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The distorted tunes test at the Web site of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders is fun! Patty at Oboeinsi...
Friday, January 06, 2006

Doors Opening 2

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In October, when I posted that I had started singing in Soli Deo Gloria , I was already sitting on some other pretty big news: I am opening...

Come Sing with Us!

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Soli Deo Gloria , with which I've been singing since September, 2005, is holding auditions on Sunday, January 8, 2006 for all voices. Ou...
Sunday, January 01, 2006

Amplification in the Opera House and Concert Hall

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Excellent article by Anthony Tommasini in today's NY Times Arts & Leisure section, containing the dismaying confirmation that the or...
Saturday, December 31, 2005

The Standard Repertory

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A couple of months ago, owing to illness, I missed a friend's party at which my name came up: there was a discussion of the standard ope...
Thursday, December 29, 2005

Finally Added to the Blogroll

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Alex and Jonathan, the Wellsung Twins. Whatever took me so long???
Friday, December 23, 2005

Barriers

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My partner is a doctoral student in public health, and we talk a lot about public health issues of various kinds. I have been saying off and...
Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Four Times Eight

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Drew tossed me this one - which I was going to answer anyway. Note that I'm treating "four" rather loosely in a couple of pla...
Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Balances, Again and Again

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It turns out the sound and balances in the orchestra of War Memorial Opera House really are, uh, interesting. It seems a difference of all o...
Monday, December 19, 2005

Breaking Up, Part 2

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I posted last week about the breakup of the Audubon Quartet in a welter of court actions and bankruptcies. That posting generated some comm...
Thursday, December 15, 2005

Norma, San Francisco Opera

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I started listening to opera seriously in 1994, and I think I picked up a recording or two of Norma early on. A friend dubbed me a copy of ...

Breaking Up

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No, not me; this blog will continue and my partner and I are fine. No, I'm thinking about the sad breakup of the Audubon Quartet . Dani...