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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Now, There's A Classy Substitute or Two!

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Menahem Pressler must bow out of his Music@Menlo programs, owing to a family emergency. I hope all will be well with Mr. Pressler and his f...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

The Gothic Arrives

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Okay, so I was not in London on Sunday. But the reviews and comments on Havergal Brian's gigantic Symphony No. 1 are out there on the ne...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

"Yes, she's the kind of a girl who makes the News of the World"

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In one sense, yes, I'm having a lot of fun following the expanding circle of scandals surrounding Rupert Murdoch's journalism empire...
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Monday, July 11, 2011

SF Opera: Rumor & Gossip Edition

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Lohengrin with Brandon Jovanovich, care of someone posting anonymously, as do we all, on Parterre Box.
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San Francisco Opera Ring: Good News and Not-So-Good News

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Press release from San Francisco Opera with some interesting news: SFO sold 99.96% of the available tickets to attendees from 46 states an...

NYCO Joins the War on Musicians

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H/T La Cieca. AGMA reports that NYCO is "proposing" the following: NYCO PROPOSALS Eliminate all health insurance. Eliminate ‘...
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Sunday, July 10, 2011

The Gods Shouldn't Talk Like the People Next Door

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That's what Desmond Shaw-Taylor told Andrew Porter when Porter started working on his singing translation of the Ring nearly 40 years ag...
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The 10,000 Foot View and the 1,000 Foot View

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When technical writers talk about documents, you hear phrases like "30,000 foot view" and "10,000 foot view" tossed arou...
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Friday, July 08, 2011

Why Does New York City Need Two Opera Companies?

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Over at About Last Night, Terry Teachout asks the above question . Evidently his Sightings  column tomorrow will ask about NYCO's missio...
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Changes!

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A press release from San Francisco Opera announces the following changes in the 2011-12 season: In Lucrezia Borgia , Francesco Meli "h...
Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Hadid Builds an Opera House

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The visionary architect Zaha Hadid has finally got some career traction in the form of commissions, and the city of Guangzhou, China, has j...
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Friday, July 01, 2011

Setting Up a Blogger Blog for Mobile Devices

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Of interest primarily to users of Blogger, but I'm willing to bet that TypePad and WordPress have comparable settings. Smartphones are...
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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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