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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Apropos of the BSO and Levine...

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....I just trawled through my saved email and I cannot find the BSO's 2011-12 season announcement. So...they haven't announced yet...

No, Long Beach Opera's Production was Not the First Akhnaten on the West Coast

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Everyone in Southern California seems to think that Long Beach Opera's Akhnaten was the first on the West Coast. It ain't so. Oaklan...
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Lee Hoiby

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American composer Lee Hoiby died over the weekend. He had a distinguished and successful career and is best known for his songs and operas, ...

Robert Tear

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The Welsh tenor Robert Tear died a few days ago at 71, of cancer. I never heard him live, but he's on any number of opera and choral rec...

Britten and Glass in LA

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My brief reviews  of The Turn of the Screw and Akhnaten are up at SFCV, in Music News. I hope to have more comments about both on this blo...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

What's the BSO to Do Now?

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I started thinking about the Boston Symphony Orchestra's situation today, on the long drive back from Los Angeles. The orchestra is in a...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Music & Libretto

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The Unrepentant Pelleasite quotes Harold Schoenberg thusly: Operas don't remain in the repertory because they have great librettos. The...
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Buff? Supernumeraries Wanted for SFO RIng

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The press release is informative about such things as the rehearsal periods for Die Walkuere and Goetterdaemmerung: SAN FRANCISCO  OPERA...
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On the Advice of His Doctors...

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...and in what must be the least surprising cast-change advisory coming from the Met, James Levine is turning over all performances of Il Tr...
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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Annals of Proofreading and Stupidity

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The NY Times's writers and editors have a problem distinguishing between "libertarian" and "liberal."  Found on page...
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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Performing Surgery

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My girlfriend was a little surprised this morning to hear me muttering something about performing surgery on my chorus music. Then she came ...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Starbucks Buying Peet's Coffee?

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Starbucks Coffee is rumored to be in talks to buy Peet's Coffee. I've already emailed Peet's to tell them that they will lose ...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Chora Nova Sings Mendelssohn and Rheinberger

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My chorus is performing a gorgeous concert of mid-19th century choral music, by Felix Mendelssohn and Josef Rheinberger, this Saturday. I ho...

Underrated/Underperformed

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Over at San Francisco Classical Voice , Michael Zwiebach's article " The Top Ten Underrated Composers ," a response to Anthony...
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Monday, March 14, 2011

Hoisted from the Comments: Amplification

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A comment on my last posting from the user known as The Unrepentent Pelleastrian deserves its own discuss: Lisa, No other issue in opera g...
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No Amplification

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San Francisco Symphony tells me that Susannah Biller and Maya Lahyani were not amplified in last week's performances of the overture and...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

More on M/M

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Over at A Beast in a Jungle , John Marcher is unhappy with last night's performance of the incidental music from A Midsummer Night'...
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Masur's Mendelssohn

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And thus to last night's Mendelssohn program at San Francisco Symphony, where I'm sorry to tell you that the answer to my question w...
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Two Concerts

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So I made it out last weekend to a couple of concerts, San Francisco Symphony and California Bach Society. Yeah, I skipped Other Minds entir...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

Speaking of Hot Tickets...

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I thought Jonas Kaufmann's recital  at Cal Performances (7 p.m., Sunday, March 13) would be one of the season's hottest tickets, but...
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Will He or Won't He?

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Take the exposition repeat in the first movement of Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, of course. Plenty of tickets, including rushes, sti...
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Cancellations Everywhere

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The news rolls in: Valery Gergiev is out of tomorrow's Met performances of Boris, ordered not to travel by his doctors. He remains in ...
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Google's Japan Earthquake Person Finder

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Google has put up a person-finder page for those looking for people or with knowledge of people's locations following the 8.9 earthquak...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Rolling of the Eyes 2

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Today I got yet another email from someone associated with a link-farm operation, telling me about an essay they'd published about the b...
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Miya Masaoka at the Berkeley Art Museum's L@TE Series

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Email received yesterday from Sarah Cahill: Dear friends- Please join us this Friday evening at 7:30 pm for a special solo performance by...