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Monday, February 28, 2011

Hell Weekend, Redux

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Pulling it all together, not quite an even dozen. I must be missing something . Merce Cunningham Dance Company's final tour is at  Cal...
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To be in Boston

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Upcoming at the BSO: Friday, March 25, 7 p.m. Saturday, March 26, 8 p.m. Thomas Adès, conductor Anthony Marwood, violin Hila Plitmann, so...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

"Comment," Unedited

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I have a "comment" in today's NY Times Arts & Leisure section, about Charles McGrath's mostly-very-good article on Wes...
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Saturday, February 26, 2011

March Madness

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I'm going to outsource to Patrick the horrifyingly long list of programs I would ideally like to get to in March. He missed a couple of...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

The VPO and Its Discontents, or Bravo, Joshua!

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Back in 2009, Joshua Kosman took a trip to Dresden, where he heard the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra play Sibelius and Shostakovich under Va...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Zaide

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Over at Out West Arts, Brian has posted a review of a production of Mozart's Zaide , which he aptly terms "the one that got away....

That First Weekend in March

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As if you didn't already have enough to sort through , Philharmonia Baroque performs on March 4, 5,  6, 8 and 9 . The program features m...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Hell Weekend

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I know you don't have enough to do on March 3, 4, 5, and 6, so I offer the following possibilities. Good luck! Merce Cunningham Dance ...

New Music, New York

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Some great things happening in contemporary music this weekend, one-third of which, more or less, I'm spending in an all-day chorus rehe...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Season Announcement Season: Metropolitan Opera

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If you read Parterre Box - c'mon, you do, you know - you've already seen some of the highlights and a lot of the bitching. I'm j...
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Stupidest Idea I Have Ever Heard

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Monopoly with a computer dictating moves , money, etc. PLEASE. Half the fun is mayhem games where you make up your own rules, usually at r...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Dear LA Opera:

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Please spare my sanity and get the choose-your-own-seat module of Tessitura already. Please.
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Sunday Miscellany

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Powerhouse percussionist Steven Schick has been appointed artistic director of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players . I saw him in ...

Memo to DG

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Kirsten Flag-schtadt as if German: no. It's more like Flah-stah. Ask a Norwegian.

Memo to Max Frankel

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Calm down and don't take it so literally.  It's fiction . And see Alex Ross , too.
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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Press Releases: Tell Me What You Think

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If you get them.... Love 'em? Hate 'em? Do you read them? Are they usually too long/too short/just right? What information do y...
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Dear Link Spammers:

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I have now gotten several notices about my blog being "chosen" to be "featured" in some way on web sites that are obviou...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011

For Sale

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I can't really afford this house ....which is extremely spacious....but maybe it comes with a piano?
Sunday, February 06, 2011

Fantasy Opera Elsewhere

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Around the blogosphere: Alex Ross found a rather odd cartoon/music pairing on YouTube that's relevant.  Mark Berry at Boulezian has a...
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Friday, February 04, 2011

Compare and Contrast 20

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Nixon in China finally reaches the Metropolitan Opera House. Anthony Tommasini and Martin Bernheimer report rather differently on the effec...
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Hot Air Music Festival This Sunday

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Yes, opposite the Super Bowl! Wouldn't you rather hear some great contemporary and new music? For free? With lower blood pressure, too! ...

Fantasy Opera, Season 3

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Assuming I'm a billionaire, of course. Chin, Alice in Wonderland Mussorgsky, Khovanshchina Wagner, Rienzi Rossini, Guillaume Tell ...
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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Personal to the NYPO's Web Editors

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Pssst: the headline refers to a composer named "Nielson," the body text to "Nielsen." The body text is correct. I have a...
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Fantasy Opera, Season 2

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Why not? Nielsen, Maskerade Verdi, Il Corsaro Carter, What's Next? Bellini, La Sonnambula Sessions, Montezuma Saariaho, L'Amo...
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If I Were a Rich Geek

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Okay, I'm going to stop complaining - well, mostly - about opera seasons that don't match my admittedly peculiar, out-of-the-mainstr...
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