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Sunday, December 31, 2006

What a year it was.

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For me personally, that is. Stressful, but good. So many changes: Left Laurel Jujitsu . Obviously I haven't got the new dojo up and runn...
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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Technical assistance, anyone?

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I was starting to get comment spam, so I disabled Haloscan comments, which turned out to completely disable commenting. I restored Blogger c...
Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Tomassini on The First Emperor

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A few paragraphs into his review of Tan Dun's The First Emperor , Anthony Tomassini of the Times says this: My guess is that a large nu...
Sunday, December 24, 2006

About Marston

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I don't recall whether I have ever discussed Marston Records here. It's Ward Marston's own record label. Ward is a legendary gu...

Mysterious Marston

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What on earth could this , found in the end-of-year email from Marston Records , be? Our Mystery Release For the past ten years, Marston has...
Friday, December 22, 2006

Uh-oh.

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Jonathan Wellsung and Maury D'Annato both walked out of The First Emperor after one act. "Maybe it got better," I thought t...
Friday, December 15, 2006

Score one for Holland.

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I'm known not to be much of a fan of Bernard Holland, but this review is a winner all around. Tip of the hat, also, to the author of t...
Tuesday, December 12, 2006

LHL on Bridge

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Bridge Records is re-releasing a recording of LHL singing John Harbison's Due Libri dei Mottetti di Montale . $14.99 in the U.S. and C...
Friday, December 08, 2006

Housing Slump's Effects (not off topic)

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The company that supports the Met broadcasts, Toll Brothers, reports an earnings slump . A big earnings slump.
Friday, December 01, 2006

Two Great Shows

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Art shows, in this case. Esther Nisenthal Krinitz survived the Holocaust in Poland, as a teenager, through her own courage and determination...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

More bad news.

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This is a companion-piece, of sorts, to the bad news discussed by ACD last week. The Times reports that EMI has been approached by a potent...
Sunday, November 26, 2006

The Met On Screen

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Several Metropolitan Opera productions are going to be broadcast over the next few months to movie theaters around the country. In the Bay ...
Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Pinchgut Opera

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I got some entertaining email the other day from the intrepid Ken Nielsen, who tells me that he and his wife had "accidentally" se...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Bums thrown out.

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My political leanings are not a secret; I spent a couple of years compiling reasons to vote George Bush out of office , after all. You can i...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

What Steve Said.

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I'm off to do my civic duty momentarily. Go vote! And before you do so, read the New York Times on the subject of ballot initiatives . ...
Sunday, November 05, 2006

Volti: Baltic Traditions Now

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A couple of weeks ago in SFCV , I wrote a Listening Ahead recommendation for Volti 's program of music from countries bordering the Balt...
Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Matthew Guerrieri and a note about the blogroll

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I've added the charminginly-named Soho the Dog , where composer/pianist/conductor Matthew Guerrieri is blogging rather entertainingly. (...

Kenneth Woods

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I'm (finally) linking to conductor Kenneth Woods, whose blog, a view from the podium , will give you a fantastic look inside the world o...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Reminded.

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Steve Smith mentions a happy anniversary, the first birthday of Night After Night , and I am reminded that today vilainefille and Iron Ton...

Oh, please, oh, please.

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Anne Midgette writes in today's Times about a rumor I dearly hope is true: But the biggest news may have been the company debut of Nico...

Blognoggle

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I've known about Blognoggle for months, but, as usual, I am way behind in talking about it here. It's a Web site that aggregates ab...
Monday, October 30, 2006

Character tenor.

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I hope not to be punished for having a case of Schadenfreude, but I find that Wolfgang Schmidt, whose singing made SFO's 1998 Tristan a...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

SFS: Abbado/Midori

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I caught the SFS concert last night with my friend Mike; a program of Petrassi's Concerto for Orchestra No. 2, Britten's violin conc...

More new.

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Added: Civic Center and A Singer's Life .
Saturday, October 28, 2006

New addition

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Celeste's Scramblings , the mostly-musical blog of alto Celeste Winant, with whom I sing in The Haydn Singers . Update , Saturday, Oct. ...