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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Memorable Music

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Okay, not quite done. I'm not going to do a standard 10-best. I'm just going to try to list some of the best or most memorable per...
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Last of the Year?

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Honestly, I should have just announced a hiatus. I have a bunch of concerts I'd like to write up, and goodness knows there's been so...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Funding Best Music Writing

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The excellent series Best Music Writing of the Year has been dropped by the Da Capo Press. Bad news, indeed, but the good news is that seri...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

The Times Does It Again

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Or rather, they don't. Once again, their year-end audio feature The Music They Made includes no one from the realm of the classical, ...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The Crowd Cheered

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The U.S. armed forces join the rest of the armies of the western world in allowing LGB people to serve openly. Not only don't planes fal...
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Reactions to the Record 3: April 12-14, 2012

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I knew this was coming, and here it is: the third Reactions to the Record symposium at Stanford University, April 12-14, 2012 . The 2009 a...

Operatic Miscellany

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I didn't like Clark Suprynowicz's Caliban Dreams earlier this year at Berkeley Opera, but his upcoming MACHINE , to be presented by...
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Friday, December 16, 2011

The Decline of Copy-Editing

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You have to wonder: China Mieville's novel Kraken uses it's where its is clearly meant, just a few pages in. GROAN. Mary Roach...
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Hell Week

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What I did during Hell Week: Flicka Gala, Dec. 3 (still need to blog) BSO, Dec. 6 7& 7 SFS (Salonen program; still need to blog), Dec...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Advent Calendars

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Two of my favorite blogs ( Entartete Music and IanVists ) are running their blogs as Advent Calendars this month. (I note that Ian mentions...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Plain Speaking

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Via Adaptistration - Deborah Borda, CEO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, called the Philadelphia Orchestra's withdrawal from the AFM pe...
Monday, December 12, 2011

I Stand Corrected

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Turns out you CAN do a shell swap on a MacBook Pro - that is, swapping the hard drive into a new shell, same as with a Lenovo. I wuz wrong.
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Also Sprach Salonen

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E-PS tweets: Back with Mahler6. Form can be annoyingly labyrinthine, directionless, orchestration always beyond reproach. Sibelius is the...
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Clarification

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I rewrote and added a couple of bits to my previous posting, owing to having implied something I didn't intend to imply.

Further to Previous

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So I ragged on Greg Sandow for his Methode-is-Mac, Dawn-is-PC tweet. His reply tweet said the Methode worked fine for him, how had it faile...
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Carter 103

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Elliott Carter turns 103 today. The birthday party for him at the 92nd St. Y the other day included several works he wrote in the last year...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

The BSO Comes to Town

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I saw both BSO programs this week, and my review is now posted at SFCV . I liked them a lot, as you can see. Opinions around town were somew...
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If Only I had $700 Million Sitting Around

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...and I were an extremely experienced and clever real estate developer, I'd buy the Battersea Power Station, London .
Friday, December 09, 2011

This Exchange Says Something About Greg Sandow

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@gsandow Greg Sandow Was using Methode dish soap, in elegant bottle. Bought Dawn -- bottle is squat, ugly. Feel lik...
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Coming to an Opera House Near (Some of) You

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From a press release about Christine Brewer's schedule: A week after her Carnegie Hall appearance, the soprano will make her much-antic...

The Press Release

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Alex Ross comments on Twitter about the strangeness and sadness of the Levine press release today. "How can he remain music director of...

James Levine

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The conductor lives, but we won't see him on the podium for a while. A press release from the Met says that James Levine has withdrawn f...

Teresa Nielsen Hayden Gets Something Everybody I Know Would Kill For

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A mention and a link on Paul Krugman's blog .
Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Personal to SFS

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Take out an option to hire Ludovic Morlot at some point in the future, eh? The contract at Seattle will keep the BSO from stealing him to re...
Thursday, December 01, 2011

Floating Around My Head

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On the shuttle back from work today, a couple of measures of music popped into my head, with the text "En hiver, la mort meurtriere....