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Friday, September 29, 2006

How to Develop Opera's Future Audience

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Peter Gelb and the Met are doing something right: Opera in the Park and the open house earlier this week are making a fan out of a 7-year-ol...
Monday, September 25, 2006

Sir Malcolm Arnold

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Sir Malcolm Arnold, symphonist and Academy-Award winning composer of film scores, has died. The obits are sad; he was an alcoholic and a sch...
Saturday, September 23, 2006

James Schwabacher

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James Schwabacher died in July. His name is attached very publicly to the Schwabacher Debut Recital series; he had a career as a concert and...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

Off Balance

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The last couple of months have been pretty distracting. The month in New Jersey was difficult in some ways, rewarding in others. My mom'...
Saturday, July 29, 2006

Emerson/Bartok

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Boosey & Hawkes, which publishes the music of John Adams, was kind enough to lend me a study score of Naive and Sentimental music a cou...
Friday, July 28, 2006

Italian Summer Music Festivals

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Goodness knows how I got on their email list, but I was sent a list of Italian summer music festivals. Oh, maybe it's from the tickets I...

Going East

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I'll be in NJ at my mother's for about a month starting Sunday, July 30. I can't spend every minute dealing with the house and w...

Rothko Cricket Frightwig

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The not-evil cat, known as Cricket, and sometimes Mr. Wig.
Thursday, July 27, 2006

On a Completely Different Subject

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Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin have published a brief review of mine at Body Impolitic , their body-image blog. It's about the fi...
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Into the Deep End

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Joshua Kosman joins the fun : welcome to the bløgösphère .

Bayreuth Broadcasts

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Ooops, they started yesterday! But you can still catch the entire Ring, Tristan , and Parsifal over the net. OperaCast has a handy Bayreuth...
Tuesday, July 04, 2006

LHL

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A friend with many more friends than me is reporting that Lorraine Hunt Lieberson has died of metastatic liver cancer. I saw her only once, ...
Friday, June 30, 2006

Evil Oberon

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Friday catblogging!
Thursday, June 29, 2006

Dottoressa Strega

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Well! My beloved filed her dissertation yesterday. She is now Donna H. Odierna, Dr. P.H. (Doctor of Public Health). Her dissertation is ca...
Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Seen at Davies

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At the Verdi Requiem, the other day, soprano Jane Eaglen; this just a couple of days after the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra concert I reviewe...

Conlon: Two for Two

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I was in Civic Center Saturday night at 10 p.m. because I'd just gotten out of the San Francisco Symphony's next-to-last performance...
Saturday, June 24, 2006

Happy Gay Day.

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War Memorial Opera House, June 24, 2006, around 10 p.m.
Friday, June 16, 2006

LHL and JL

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Buried in Lawrence Van Gelder's "Arts, Briefly" column today in the Times , Daniel J. Wakin reports the worrisome news that L...

Where I've Been

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Hither and yon - three weeks in New Jersey, not quite confined entirely to my mother's house, and under some work pressure, as well. I t...
Sunday, April 30, 2006

Sunday Dogblogging

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Molly (in front) and her buddy Jupiter hoping for treats yesterday at the Albany Bulb.
Friday, April 28, 2006

She's Right, You Know

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Read vilaine fille and weep. And then write letters of complaint (to the NY Phil) and of warning (to Peter Gelb).
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Buh?

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The TAFTO discussions continue, entertainingly, with participant Marc Geelhoed of Deceptively Simple and TAFTO skeptic A. C. Douglas exc...
Sunday, April 23, 2006

Top 10

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Steve Hicken (listen) is one of the bloggers featured in the Classical Music section of Top Ten Sources . When I followed the link from l...
Friday, April 21, 2006

Chicago Classical Music

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Chicago Classical Music is a Web site for classical music lovers in Chicago; it's been established "under the auspices of" th...

Alex Shapiro

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A month or two back, I ran across notes from the kelp , composer Alex Shapiro's blog, because of referrals to me (thank you, Site Meter ...