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Friday, March 31, 2006

Not since Ponselle?

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The wonderful Karita Mattila isn't singing tomorrow's Met matinee - and thus broadcast - of Fidelio ; instead, her cover, Erika Sunn...
Thursday, March 30, 2006

In the East

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I'm unexpectedly home on family business, completely with laptop so that I can get some work done while I'm here. So I will be blogg...
Friday, March 24, 2006

Peter Craven Rants

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An entertaining rant by Peter Craven, in The Age, about the recent, awful film Tristan and Isolde , complete with a fine discussion of Wagn...
Friday, March 17, 2006

The Fredosphere in San Francisco

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Fred Himebaugh's choral piece The Evidence will be performed in the San Francisco Bay Area by San Francisco Choral Artists in concert...
Thursday, March 16, 2006

Link Roundup

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I have a couple of interesting links in my mail box, but no postings to hang on them, so: Bridge Records sends me mail about once a month w...
Sunday, March 12, 2006

How It Went

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The inaugural concerts of the Haydn Singers this weekend went well. Palo Alto was a little more ragged than we would have liked, and the tu...
Friday, March 10, 2006

Haydn Singers This Weekend

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I'm thrilled to report that the Haydn Singers , conducted by Paul Flight, are debuting this weekend, in Palo Alto and Berkeley, CA. Our ...
Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Dojo space sought

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A posting from my non-musical life. I'm just starting to look around for space for my jujitsu dojo, which I plan to open....well, let...

The Numbers

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Greg Sandow posted some fascinating numbers on his ArtsJournal blog last week, covering the number of concerts and number of attendees annu...
Monday, March 06, 2006

Venues

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I really ought to have pushed this past weekend's Soli Deo Gloria concerts a little harder. It's not my favorite repertory, but yes...
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...