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Monday, August 31, 2009

A Night at the Opera, Ballpark Edition

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You can see San Francisco Opera's season-opening Il Trovatore free at the S.F. ballpark, on September 19, 2009, at 8 p.m. The cast look...
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Last Night of the Proms

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So the BBC has a plan in place to broadcast the famous Last Night of the Proms live. That'll take place on September 12, 2009. In the B...
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Kennedy Funeral - Music Question

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The last work listed in the official order of the service for Ted Kennedy's funeral today is "America the Beautiful," played...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

Preparation

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If you're planning to attend one of the first two productions of the San Francisco Opera's fall season and you're not familiar w...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Kennedy Conducts

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Just in case you thought there couldn't possibly be a good classical music tie-in to the passing of Senator Kennedy (yes, I know about ...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

"The purchase also includes an opera house"

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Somebody please buy this for me: A castle in Scotland , which looks pretty darned good from the photos, and costs a mere $8.2 million. It ha...
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Unsuk Chin: Rocaná

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Hear Unsuk Chin's gorgeous Concerto for Violin , at record label Analekta's web site.

Ted Kennedy, RIP

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You were a flawed human and a great Senator . Thank you, Ted, for being a liberal firebrand all these years, and for passing so much importa...

Health Care Reform, Again

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David Leonhardt makes some good points in the Times. "Both parties are protecting the insurers." The Times also has an excellent ...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Urban Opera's First Venture

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My mini-review in SFCV . A line didn't make it in: after a slightly shaky first number, the chorus was terrific. And, of course, next ti...
Monday, August 24, 2009

Speechless

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Press release from San Francisco Opera announcing a Ladies' Night at the Opera (I added that apostrophe), for the Tuesday, Sept. 22 perf...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Urban Opera: Dido & Aenaes

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I heard last night about performances of Purcell's Dido and Aenaes taking place this weekend in San Francisco in an unusual location: t...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

More Behrens

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Tributes to Hildegard Behrens are popping up around the blogosphere, as well as obituaries. Alex Ross, who loved her performances, has poste...

Mid-August Miscellany

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Tim Mangan, who is a real reporter, took a closer look at the Berlin Phil web offerings than I did . Saariaho fans, take note: their Augus...

Really, Frank, You Should Have Invited Me

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The trials of a restaurant critic.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Hildegard Behrens, RIP

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Hildegard Behrens died Tuesday, age 72, in Japan. The soprano, a veteran of Wagner productions everywhere, was preparing for a recital and m...
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Updates

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I've updated More on Health Care Reform multiple times since I first put it up. Damn right I care about this issue.
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Tim Mangan Puts on a Contest

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I haven't a clue who wrote the amazing screed about Tristan , but I'll run right out to read it...oh, you know, maybe I do. And mayb...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Astronomy in Opera

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O: Già la pleiade ardente al mar discende. D: Tarda è la notte. O: Vien....Venere splende!

More on Health Care Reform

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A few interesting items: Wendell Potter, former Cigna mouthpiece, talks about why he had to get out of the health insurance business and wh...
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From the Liceu, Barcelona

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Via La Cieca comes the news that the Liceu Opera, Barcelona, has a YouTube channel of many video excerpts. Lots and lots of good, and not ...

Berlin Philharmonic on the Web

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The Berlin Phil's ambitious efforts on the web will include live webcasts of 33 concerts in their upcoming season, plus there is a weal...
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Memo to the NY Times Copy-Editors

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Guess what's in today's Times obit for David Drew? After graduating from Cambridge in 1954, Mr. Drew worked as a freelance music cri...
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Friday, August 14, 2009

Pssst! Want to see the Seattle Ring?

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An acquaintance of mine has a set of tickets for sale to cycle two, which is next week (Aug. 17, 18, 20, 22). The tickets (long story) are l...
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Return of the VRWC

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Remember Hillary Clinton's line about the vast right-wing conspiracy ? She was widely derided despite the fact that she was right. See R...
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