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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Apologies/Infrastructure

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I'd planned to do some blogging this weekend - mostly I have been sleeping off a sore throat and fever, which, alas, kept from both The ...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

Reactions to the Record, 3

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A few odd ends, then I'll get to serious blogging about the various sessions. Jerry McBride is the Head Librarian of the Stanford Music ...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

The Kind of Thing You Can't Say in the Chron

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Well, that's what blogs are for .

Interruption

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Alex Ross writes today about heartening changes in the American orchestral landscape: rising ticket sales, a move away from hiring Europea...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Reactions to the Record, 2

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Jonathan Bellman, of Dial M for Musicology was also at Reactions to the Record . He posts evocatively about the experience of the conferen...
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Reactions to the Record, 1

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I'm going to be blogging this week about the three exhausting, exhilarating days I spent at Stanford's symposium Reactions to the Re...
Friday, April 13, 2007

I thought it was a joke...

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...when I started referring to Subaru Outbacks as lesbomobiles .
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Handel on Stage

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Greg Sandow has an interesting piece up on Handel's operas. His comments on Handel are factually accurate, though he seems to have mis...
Thursday, April 12, 2007

Will wonders never cease.

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Seriously off-topic, but whatever. I have to talk politics at least annually. Around 2002, I started to keep a Web page of reasons to vote G...
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Sun Quartet at the Hillside Club, Berkeley

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I've never heard the Sun Quartet, but based on their membership and the program, I'm looking forward to hearing them tonight, April ...

Lots Going On

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I have a couple of longish posts percolating; we'll see when they get published. In the meantime, plenty out there to think about. I dir...
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Sunday, April 01, 2007

Not Bigotry?

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Patrick J. Smith's definition of bigotry must be different from mine, since he doesn't see the Vienna Philharmonic's hiring pra...
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Friday, March 30, 2007

Reactions to the Record: Perspectives on Historical Performance

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Stanford University has a fascinating symposium coming up; I'll just quote from their Web site: The Stanford Department of Music is hos...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Whoa.

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When I saw the photo posted by Justin Davidson, who is guest-blogging at The Rest is Noise , I thought the concert hall was being towed in...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Getting Rid of the Underline

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So, you may have noticed (or maybe not) that the ugly underline is gone from the posting titles. Here's how I did it. 1. Go to Template-...

When He's Right...

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ACD reposts and responds to a thoroughly ignorant posting at a blog I've heard of but never read. I think I won't bother!   The hi...
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That Quiz

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Okay, I'll play too . 1. Name an opera you love for the libretto, even though you don't particularly like the music. The Barber of S...
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Monday, March 26, 2007

Christopher Rouse's Requiem

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Keith Chaffee blogs on the first performance of Christopher Rouse's Requiem . It sounds like a great piece - and there must have been s...
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Friday, March 23, 2007

Misuse of Copyright

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Matthew Guerrieri reports on attempts by the Rachmaninov family to extend copyright on the composer's works even further . This is bad ...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Chora Nova - This Sunday!

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Works by Brahms (Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes), Vaughan Williams (Serenade to Music), Badings (Three Breton Songs), Elgar, and a smattering of ...

Torrent

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Vom Gebirge Well auf Well kommen Regengüsse, und ich gäbe dir so gern hunderttausend Küsse.

American Liszt Society Annual Festival

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Bet you didn't know that the American Liszt Society's annual festival will be in San Francisco this year - but it is, sponsored by t...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Eight in Twelve

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We interrupt the Bernard Holland discussion with late-breaking news: Madama Butterfly comes to San Francisco Opera yet again . Here's t...
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Monday, March 19, 2007

Fish, Barrel

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Bernard Holland on Nico Muhly's concert: Explaining why Elizabethan church music and pieces by the young American Nico Muhly were found ...
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Compare and Contrast 3

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Die Aegyptische Helene is performed at the Met for the first time since the heyday of Maria Jeritza, and there's some disagreement abou...