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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Berkeley Opera's Legend of the Ring: Get Yer Tickets Now

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I bought mine last month, and now that the casting has been announced, I'm very glad. I will conveniently highlight two singers you migh...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Google Apps Script Hackathon, NYC, June 24

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There's going to be a Hackathon for Google Apps Script in NYC in a few weeks, on June 24, 2010. It's at the Google NYC office, 76 Ni...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Read DeLong Today

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Economist Brad DeLong has a particularly illuminating and worthwhile set of links today.

Berkeley Humane in Need

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The Berkeley East Bay Humane Society has been providing shelter and care for animals in need for decades. Early Thursday morning, a fire br...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Feldman's Second String Quartet Live

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Hear it now at WQXR: Nex(t)works plays Feldman .
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Only Thirty Days to Go!

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Erzsebet: The Blood Countess Opera, by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, needs about $7200 more to meet its fundraising goal and has 30 days to get ther...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Calling All Former Well Members

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Want to join up again? The Well, among the first and still one of the best all-purpose, on-line discussion forums, has a special offer for r...

Why My Next Car Might Be an Original VW Bug

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Some computer scientists investigated the vulnerability of the computer systems in contemporary vehicles and found them hackable: Cars' ...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Department of You Don't Say, Political Edition

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Today's horrors. U. S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits , including the Deepwater Horizon well. This appears to have taken ...
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Flooding in Nashville

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When the Cumberland River, in Nashville, Tennessee, overflowed its banks recently, it did a good bit of damage throughout the city. The Sche...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Dynamic: Italian Record Label New to Me

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Email a week or so ago called my attention to the Italian record label Dynamic. Their web site is here (available in Italian and English). ...
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Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University

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Stanford University is about to break ground for a new concert hall seating 800-odd. Called Bing Concert Hall, it will open in 2012. It'...
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Mystery Photo

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Over at Musical Assumptions , Elaine Fine and her readers are trying to identify the men in a photo with Paul Hindemith, c. 1947. Yes, no. 1...
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Monday, May 10, 2010

Elena Kagan

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Couldn't he have found someone a little more liberal ?
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Friday, May 07, 2010

Lawsuit Potential

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So is Steve Jobs going to sue Grant Achatz for opening a restaurant called Next ?

Things That Make You Go "Buh?"

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"Renowed American dramatic soprano Patricia Racette," found in a press release from San Francisco Opera about the upcoming Faust p...

Concerts in Memory of J. Karla Lemon

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The Stanford University Music Department is presenting two concerts in memory of J. Karla Lemon, who died last fall at the sadly young age o...
Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Or Maybe Not

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More on Moby-Dick; everybody is more positive than Brian : Anne Midgette is quite positive , though there's this: " Heggie’s music...
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Contrasts

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Mr. Monotonous Forest to me, in February: If you had a week to hear any music you could, what would you want to hear? Ms. Iron Tongue, after...
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Cal Performances 2010-11 Season

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Matias Tarnopolsky, the new director of Cal Performances, put on a press conference this morning to announce the 2010-11 season. AND WHAT A ...
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Monday, May 03, 2010

LePage Ring

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The trailer for the Met's upcoming Ring cycle, designed by Robert LePage, is no longer on YouTube, so see it on the Met web site instea...
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Sunday, May 02, 2010

Wild Weekend: Interlude

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While I was away, word went out that critic Alan Rich had died at 85. I have read very little of his work, an omission I plan to correct. Re...
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Fears Come True

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Brian at Out West Arts went to Texas for the premier of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's Moby-Dick. Here's the most important paragrap...
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Friday, April 30, 2010

Wild Weekend II: In Transit

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Ethan and Alex headed off for San Francisco Airport, on their way to Ann Arbor, MI ; I headed for BART and Oakland Airport, on my way to Los...
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Wild Weekend I: Noise Tour with Alex Ross and Ethan Iverson

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Alex Ross, someone I didn't recognize (but should have), and Ethan Iverson The recap: last Friday, April 23, I didn't manage to see ...
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