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Friday, June 29, 2012

Non-Musical Annoyances

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I've written before about the ways that non-musical events can affect my reactions to a musical program. The other night's Magic Flu...
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Thursday, June 28, 2012

The Short Version

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Annoying night at the opera: Conducting crude (at least in Act I) Translation jokey in dumb ways Projections distracting Shrader over-h...
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The ACA Stands

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By 5-4, with  Chief Justice Roberts  in the majority. Still waiting for details, since the Times headline says "largely," but it...
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Sunday, June 24, 2012

More Nixon Reviews

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Two more Nixon in China  reviews: Brian at Out West Arts Liz Henry at Composite , with a particularly interesting analysis (she always  h...

Indiana University, You Have Something to Answer For

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Joshua Bell, interviewed in the NY Times : I just passed the 1,000-page mark in Ken Follett’s “ World Without End ,” the follow-up to his...
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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Turing Centenary

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You might find today's Google logo a little cryptic, at least until you mouse over it: It's the 100th birthday of Alan Turin...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Why We Need the Blogosphere, Part the Nth

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You may have noticed that there wasn't a whole lot of coverage of Ojai North in the area's major music news outlets: SFCV and the M...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Plus Ca Change

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A few minutes ago, the weekly email from San Francisco Symphony landed in my mailbox. Besides urging us to buy tickets to Bluebeard's C...
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Is it Autumn in Los Angeles?

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In the last 24 hours, I've received the following email: From LA Opera, information about Don Giovanni , which opens September 22 and ...
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Monday, June 18, 2012

Sources of Madama Butterfly

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Fascinating NY Times article by musicologist W. Anthony Sheppard about Chinese tunes (yes, Chinese) incorporated into Butterfly.  Now I...
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Nixon in San Francisco

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The reviews are going up, and I'll be accumulating links here. [Earlier: Note that mine is filed but not yet on line; it may not be up...
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Judit on Bluebeard

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Georgia Rowe interviewed Michelle DeYoung about what it's like to perform Bartok's great one-act opera / psychodrama  A kékszakállú ...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Ojai North! Tattling

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A cell phone went off during the Schnittke Piano Quintet, I believe between movements or near the end of a movement. The performers waited...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Think Before Clicking Send

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I bow to no one in my love of Bluebeard's Castle , and it remains to be seen just how many performances of it I will attend next week. B...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Ojai North!

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Okay, four concerts down, two to go, and I'd say it deserves that exclamation point. All of you who went to the Attila  and Magic Flute ...
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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Inuksuit at Ojai North

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Just a reminder that you'll have a rare opportunity to hear John Luther Adams's Inuksuit  on Monday, June 11 - that's tomorrow -...
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Friday, June 08, 2012

Hillside Club

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Berkeley's Hillside Club has a fine concert series , mixing jazz, classical chamber music, and opera on a small scale. Their Cedar St. l...

Patti Smith Has Good Taste

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Her five favorite operas : Parsifal Tristan und Isolde Madama Butterfly La Traviata Tosca Who said Wagner and Puccini don't go...
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Thursday, June 07, 2012

This Week in Elliott Carter

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Tomorrow night, the NY Phil, under David Robertson, premiers Elliott Carter's new work Two Controversies and a Conversation . Here's...
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It's Prime Time in the USA

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And tomorrow  Nixon in China , a 20th c. masterpiece, is finally getting its  long overdue premier at San Francisco Opera . I caught the Met...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Many Ways to Give

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A correspondent asked me about San Francisco Opera's recent fundraising letter, signed (and quite possibly written) by Frederica von Sta...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Season Announcement: Stanford Live

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I spent the greater part of yesterday afternoon at Stanford, first attending the season announcement for what used to be Stanford Lively Art...
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Separated at Birth Redux

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San Francisco Opera logo: LA Opera logo: Stanford Live (sic) logo:
Sunday, June 03, 2012

The Other Mary Magdalen

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The one that wasn't commissioned by San Francisco Opera, that is. Reviews of the new John Adams / Peter Sellars oratorio are starting to...
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Misunderstanding

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CNN's announcers don't seem to understand that those poor people getting soaked on top of the London Philharmonic's barge on the...
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