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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Also on the Blogroll

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As a big fan of MoRunnicles, of course I had to add the UK blogger Tam Pollard, whose blog is called Where's Runnicles? (I wonder about...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

New to the Blogroll

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Beloved reader C.K. Dexter Haven takes up the pen, er, keyboard with his new blog All is Yar . Go forth and read!
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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Missa Monstra

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San Francisco Symphony put on Beethoven's Missa Solemnis  the other day (last performance is this afternoon, if you can brave the Pride ...
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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Bargains: Hoisted from the Comments

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Over on my  Stage Directions  posting, Joe Barron is asking about bargains in Ring recordings. Here are some suggested methods for locating ...
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Friday, June 24, 2011

New York!

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Marriage equality passes in New York State . And I like Katherine Franke's Times op-ed today , saying that we should have a range of l...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Stage Directions

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My Ring review cites Wagner's stage directions for the end of Goetterdaemmerung, noting that there's no reason to invent action for ...
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Unions, Classical Music, and All o' That

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A couple of weeks ago, Greg Sandow was quoted in The Australian as follows: Sandow says that if the Philadelphia Orchestra were to suddenl...
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Not Sure Where These Belong...

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DON'T make someone who wants to join your organization's mailing list provide their street address and phone number. DON'T s...

Das Ende: Reviewing Der Ring des Nibelungen at San Francisco Opera

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My review of SF Opera's new Ring production is up at San Francisco Classical Voice. It's an overview of the production and performa...
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Garden of Memory, Today!

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I'm late posting this, but I also only got the notice about Garden of Memory two days ago. If you're not at War Memorial Opera House...

Musicians Don't Comment?

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Over at Classical Life , critic Tim Mangan's blog, Tim has picked up on a point from my Blogging Basics page . An interesting discussi...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Blogging Basics

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You'll notice - well, you probably won't, which is why I'm posting this - a new item in the sidebar, a page called Blogging Bas...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Three Questions for Sixty-Five Composers

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I've gotten email from University of Rochester Press about a new entry in their Eastman Studies in Music Series : Three Questions for Si...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

Preparation

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BRÜNNHILDE O heilige Götter! Hehre Geschlechter! Weidet eu'r Aug' an dem weihvollen Paar! Getrennt - wer will es scheiden? Ge...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Ring Recordings II: Solti

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The most-mentioned, everybody's-favorite set among Ring sets is, of course, the famous Solti/VPO recording, made with a starry cast betw...
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Ring Recordings, Part I: Overview

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Over at SFCV, there's a roundup of favorite Ring recordings , curated by Janos Gereben, with contributions by the high and mighty ( Davi...
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Cal Bach Choral Workshop

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California Bach Society is presenting its sixth annual choral workshop. This year's workshop will cover the opening choruses of five Bac...

Speaking of the Balenciaga Show...

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Some of the dresses at the Balenciaga show (DeYoung Museum, through July 4) suffer because they are hung on mannequins that are too small  ...

Pulp Fashion, Palace of the Legion of Honor

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Patrick and his friend V. went to see the Isabelle de Borchgrave show at the Palace of the Legion of Honor the other week, and weren't ...

Musical Logos

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I don't see the Google home page on a daily basis, despite the gazillion web searches I perform. That's because I use the search bar...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Met HD Broadcast Encores

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Starting next week and not all from the season just past, either: Puccini’s  Madama Butterfly   (June 15). Racette. Donizetti’s   Don Pasq...

Another Eyewitness Account

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Composer Matthew Cmiel reports on the incident at the Royce Gallery concert the other day.
Thursday, June 09, 2011

Amplification Redux

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I saw Stephen Sondheim's great musical Assassins over the weekend, presented by Ray of Light Theater at the Eureka Playhouse. You shou...
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Publicity Basics Redux

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Proper Discord makes a superb how-to contribution . Yep, yep, and yep - ignore at your peril.
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Anthony Tommasini in San Francisco

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Here's an event well worth attending next Thursday night between Ring operas. Tommasini, NY Times head classical music critic and the au...