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Monday, April 30, 2012

Other Famous Brandeis Grads

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Making up for T** F*******, and with thanks to MD and DFU: Geir Haarde , former PM of Iceland Angela Davis Edward Witten , physicist A...

BZZZT.

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The 2012 BBC Proms web site joins the parade of sites failing the Ross/Hirsch test for web site usability: you can't scan a list of per...
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Return of an Old Discussion

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Apparently I was wrong the other day: it's still possible to talk about applause between movements. In the comments at SFCV At Tim M...

The Machine Stops

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Around the net, we have various reports on the Met's ongoing Ring  cycle. Here's Anthony Tommasini in the Times (and responses at P...
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Fashion Notes from SFS

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I try not to comment on performers' outfits too often; yeah, you're all right that the visuals are part of the experience, but my pr...
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Friday, April 27, 2012

Pavel Haas Quartet on Radio, Tonight

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The Pavel Haas Quartet's concert tonight at Carnegie Hall is being broadcast live on WQXR. Their Bay Area debut last year was spectacula...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Point of View

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Over on the Well, which I mentioned in yesterday's long post, it's been common over the years for people to have very, very differen...

Why We Need to Think About Women Composers

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Some weeks ago, an article was published over at New Music Box proclaiming that women composers were dead. No, actually, it claimed the ter...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

This Gives Me the Fear.

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Found in the NY Times :  Paul Klee’s “Mask of Fear,” for instance, will make its film debut later this year in “Cloud Atlas” with Tom Hank...
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Community, Nostalgia, and the Classical Music Blogosphere

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I am an avid participant in a couple of old-school forms of communication and community. One is an amateur press association (also known as ...
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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Candidate

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Stephane Deneve guest-conducted the San Francisco Symphony this week. I caught the last performance of his mostly-French program and thought...

"You're stuck with me whether you like it or not."

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Wow. Just...wow. Unbelievably, that's what Robert Lepage said to Dan Wakin , who does the Met and all opera audiences a great favor by p...
Friday, April 20, 2012

"Scheduling Conflict"

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Mmm-hmmm: [Metropolitan Opera] Casting Update News Alain Altinoglu will conduct next season’s spring performances of Verdi’s  Otello ,...

Here's One Documentary I'll Have to See

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The Curse of the Gothic Symphony : H/T Alex Ross for the link . And aren't you happy to live in a world where you can hear three co...
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White Smoke Does Not Rise Over Boston

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The BSO season announcement is here; 17 conductors for the season, no new music director. I'll eventually have a full report.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

The Right Place to Announce Cast Changes

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Via Intermezzo comes the news that Diana Damrau won't be in next fall's ROH performances of Robert le Diable . That news is unobjec...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Don't Do What the ROH is About to Do

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Their Premium Friends, who pay a small fortune for the privilege of premium and advanced ticketing, will (temporarily) only be able to order...
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Compare & Contrast 21: FW-M Edition

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Franz Welser-Möst brought the Cleveland Orchestra to San Francisco and points south, and there is some disagreement out there about the perf...
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It's Short, but It's a Season

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NYCO announces a four-opera, 16-performance season for 2012-13. Big sigh at the tiny scope, but it looks as though their model is edging to...

Revoke His Degree

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Once upon a time, I was proud that Thomas L. Friedman, who was then a reporter rather than a pundit, had graduated from Brandeis. He's p...
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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Big Sigh

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So tired that I turned in my ticket to tonight's Cleveland Orchestra program.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Everybody Has an Angle

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On the RMS Titanic  disaster, that is: a press release from the BSO tells me they are going to spotlight a memorial plaque honoring the musi...

Mavericks on the Radio

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If you've been reading the Times or various NY bloggers, you know that SFS's American Mavericks programs were a huge hit in NYC. (I ...
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Feature Restored

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In my absence, Blogger evidently pushed a new version of the software. The new post editor looks much better, with more contrast; importantl...

I'm Back.

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No posting for most of the last two weeks because I was on vacation in Oahu. I'm back, now, browner and a whole lot more relaxed. I'...
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