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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Recommendations Sought

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John Banville, a reader of this blog, asks: Could you recommend a recording of Schubert's Sonata for Arpeggione, but with viola instead ...
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Compare and Contrast 18, Italian Soprano Division

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I forgot to mention in my comments on Tosca that while Adrianne Pieczonka has fine technique and a warm voice of ample size - certainly mor...
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Musical Minds, on PBS's Nova

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Tonight most PBS stations will broadcast a Nova show called "Musical Minds." It's based on Oliver Sacks's book Musicophili...
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Senator Franken!

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Minnesota Supreme Court rules; Norm Coleman concedes . Presumably Gov. Pawlenty will sign the election certification. If you're wonderi...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Tosca, San Francisco Opera

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Tosca is one of the trio of Puccini works that opera companies haul out like clockwork, along with La Boheme and Madama Butterfly . They...
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Friday, June 26, 2009

Maazel's Mahler

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If you're interested in hearing what outgoing NY Phil maestro Lorin Maazel can do with Mahler, and you didn't catch any of it during...

Joana Careiro on the Radio

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If you're not partying or at the Opera seeing Netrebko Sunday afternoon, you can catch the broadcast of a Berkeley Sympony concert condu...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Social Networking Redux

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Every now and again I pop over to the San Francisco Symphony's newish social networking site just to see what's happening. They'...
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Trends

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If you want to know what people are interested in, who better to tell you than the modern Oracle? And, luckily, Google provides a page calle...

I Just Hope They Don't Have Any Serious Theological Disputes During the Sermon.

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Pastor Urges His Flock to Bring Guns to Church , NY Times, June 25, 2009.
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Betty Allen

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The mezzo-soprano Betty Allen has died, age 82. A contemporary and college classmate of Leontyne Price's, and a member of the same gener...
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You Can't Make This Stuff Up, Republican Division

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Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina goes down, down, down , to Argentina and then in disgrace. "Hiking the Appalachian trail,...
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Bay Area Composers IV: David B. Doty

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David B. Doty's Steel Suite , played on harpsichord by Jonathan Salzedo of the Albany Consort. Click the button labeled Recordings. The ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The First Flute

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The NY Times reports on the oldest known musical instrument , a flute estimated to be 35,000 years old. Me, I bet that percussion instrument...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

End of an Era, Photographic Edition

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Kodak is retiring Kodachrome at the end of the year.
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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Women (and Men) Who Love Too Much, Operatic Version

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Porgy, meet Countess Almaviva; Countess, Porgy.
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Gulda and Others

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I'm slightly surprised that ACD hasn't run across Friedrich Gulda before . Gulda was among Martha Argerich's teachers, and the ...
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Friday, June 19, 2009

Tweeting During Concerts

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PDQ Bach got there first: Read what Matthew Guerrieri has to say about tweeting and Twitter.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Memo to San Francisco Opera Copy-Editors

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The name of the opera is Il Trovatore for a reason, and no one goes to see this opera primarily because of the baritone singing the Count: ...
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Bay Area Composers III: Clark Suprynowicz

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Composer Clark Suprynowicz's videos are hosted on his personal web site , so the videos can't be embedded here. But you should defi...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

L'Oiseau de Feu

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Here's birthday boy Igor Stravinsky conducting the end of The Firebird , London, 1965, in a lovely and soft-grained performance: Today...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Online Music Journalism Roundup

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Alex Ross had a few wry comments the other day about the state of journalism in general and class music criticism in particular. San Franci...
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Garden of Memory 2009

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It's that time of year again: the summer solstice is approaching, and at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, diverse Bay Area musicians...

Twas the Eighteenth of April...

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No, wait, it's not. But this ride - er, run - will get the BSO some amusing attention, and maybe a few bucks, assuming nothing unfortuna...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Postscript to Pastreich

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The following was posted in the comments to an earlier posting, and I thought it should be more prominently displayed: As musician represent...