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Monday, November 29, 2010

Not Quite Heaven-Storming

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Reviewing the San Francisco Symphony: Brahms/Yefim Bronfman, Berg, MTT . Elsewhere, Joshua Kosman tries to make a case for Bronfman's ...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

This Will Make You Feel Safer, I'm Sure

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Adam Savage of Mythbusters got on a plane. The TSA got a look at his anatomy but missed the 12" steel razor blades he had packed.
Monday, November 22, 2010

This Could Be Fun

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From the American Musicological Society  announcement mailing list: Call for Papers “After the End of Music History” An international c...
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Friday, November 19, 2010

"You know that if he were alive today, he would totally be a blogger."

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Mark Twain, that is. His autobiography, which he authorized for publication a century after his death, is flying off the shelves . The U.C. ...
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Most Beautiful and All o' That

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Not that I really expect A. C. Douglas to be paying much attention to individual singers, especially those singing primarily non-German musi...
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E-PS Gets It Right

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Yes , it certainly is   the best C major chord  all music, even when Judit bags the high C . * Although, you know, the one at "And .....
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Timely Reminder: Chora Nova, Nov. 20, 2010

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Our all-Haydn program, in which we'll perform the Harmoniemesse (Wind-Band Mass), the Te Deum in Bb for Empress Marie-Therese, and Der S...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

FYI

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I am not not not the Lisa Hirsch who is writing for Entertainment Tonight News.
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Berkeley West Edge Opera

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Completely forgot - Handel's Xerxes  opens tonight at Berkeley West Edge Opera ; additional performances on Nov. 19 and 21, at the El Ce...

The Makropulos Review

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Vec Makropulos  at San Francisco Opera . There's  more editorializing than I usually indulge in, but whatever. If it's not clear, Ma...

Saturday Miscellany

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Catching up on lots of upcoming concerts. We're at saturation point here, that time when so much is going on that hard choices need to b...
Friday, November 12, 2010

More Mak Misc

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Yes, indeed, left a couple of things out. The Met premier of this great opera waited until 1996, amazingly. They'd managed to stage Je...
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The Vaz Perspective

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You may or may not know that Patrick Vaz likes to sit close to the action. Really close, in the first three or so rows of whatever performa...
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Miscellaneous Musings on Makropulos

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To start with, get a ticket . I'll have a review up at SFCV sometime in the next 24 hours, and will hold off on more extensive comments ...

Bandwagon

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So, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has decided to jump on the HD broadcast bandwagon, sendingseveral programs led by Gustavo Dudamel to a few ...
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Saturday, November 06, 2010

Chora Nova Haydn Program, Nov. 20, 2010

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I'm singing with Chora Nova again this year, and our first program will be this great all-Haydn concert: Harmoniemesse (WInd-Band Mass...
Friday, November 05, 2010

KM as EM

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Just a reminder that Vec Makropoulos  ( The Makropoulos Case  or, in older translations, The Makropoulos Affair ) opens this Wednesday, Nove...
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Shirley Verrett

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The great mezzo-soprano and soprano died today, age 79 , of heart disease; the Times obituary is here . In this YouTube video, she is in ...
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Thursday, November 04, 2010

Perspective

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Amount of money Meg Whitman spent running for governor of California: $163 million Amount of the 2010 budget of the National Endowment for...
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Wanted: Audiophile Mahler Fans, Must Own Turntable

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You also need to have enough disposable income to drop $749 on an LP set - but it's not just any LP set. It's a 22-LP set pressed...
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Music at Stanford

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Just a reminder that if you're within hailing distance of Palo Alto, Stanford University offers many, many musical performances by a wid...
Monday, November 01, 2010

Urban Witch Project

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Reviewing Urban Opera's The Witch of Endor .
Sunday, October 31, 2010

This Afternoon

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Hie thee to the Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Union at Steiner in San Francisco, at 4 p.m. today, to see the second and last perf...
Friday, October 29, 2010

This Weekend and Next

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A ton of good stuff happening, some of which I'll get to. Benjamin Bagby recites a big chunk of Beowulf and plays the harp at Cal Perfo...

Patricia Racette and Beth Clayton Say It Gets Better

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I admire them a great deal as singers and as people.