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Friday, February 26, 2016

Hong Out of Met Butterfly Entirely

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Hei-Kyung Hong is still sick and has withdrawn from the remaining performances. Ana Maria Martinez continues in the role on February 27 and ...

Robert Moses and Lincoln Center

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In last week's New Yorker , dated February 22, there's a short item in The Talk of the Town about a forthcoming opera, A Marvelo...
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Germany Friday Photo

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Beets & Kohlrabi, Viktuelienmarkt, Munich August, 2015
Friday, February 19, 2016

Germany Friday Photo

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Viktualienmark, Munich August, 2015
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Learn to Protect Yourself! Take a Women's Self-Defense Class!

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Four Saturday afternoons March 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2016 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. $150/student. No one turned away for lack of funds. We ar...
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Met 2016-17 Season Announcement, Part 1

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The Met season announcement is trickling in, and I mean that more or less literally. I have the press release for the 10-opera HD season, bu...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Join the People's Orchestra!

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The People's Orchestra of West Bromwich, England, is looking for new members. Their press release says: The charity run orchestra...
Monday, February 15, 2016

Steven Stucky

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Shocking news this morning that composer Steven Stucky has died at 66 of a brain tumor. No obit yet; Michael Cooper reported Stucky'...
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A Bit More on Scalia

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Just so there is no misunderstanding, I thought him a despicable jurist. The Onion's headline - "Scalia Dies After Thirty Years of ...
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Saturday, February 13, 2016

Antonin Scalia

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He was an extremely smart (and deeply misguided) associate justice; he was a good friend of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; he was an opera fan...
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Friday, February 12, 2016

London Friday Photo

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Swiss Re Tower ("The Gherkin") City of London, May, 2014
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Fluttering By

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More Butterfly  variety than expected at the Met, according to a cast change announcement: Ana María Martínez will sing her first Met perf...
Tuesday, February 09, 2016

Tuesday Miscellany

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Christine Goerke, who recently made her role debut as the Siegfried  Brunnhilde in the Canadian Opera Company's production of that opera...
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Ojai Music Festival: MDs through 2021

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Photo linked from Ojai Festival web site Good news on the Music Director front from the Ojai Festival : Peter Sellars, 2016, with a...
Monday, February 08, 2016

Gap Year

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Facts to consider: The New York Philharmonic season announcement identifies the 2016-17 season as Alan Gilbert's farewell to the o...
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Friday, February 05, 2016

London Friday Photo

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Punch Tavern, Fleet Street London, May, 2014
Thursday, February 04, 2016

Call Her MGT.

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MGT, photo   Images: Nancy Horowitz / Vern Evans from CBSO web site That'll get you around trying to pronounce Mirga Gražinytė-Ty...

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla to CBSO!

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Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla LAPO photograph Via Twitter, the immensely talented Lithuanian conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla has been named th...

Non-Renewal

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Just sent email to the SFO subscription department: Dear Ms. [representative],   Thank you again. I have decided not to renew my subscri...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2016

Keep Calm and Count the Delegates

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Cruz: 8 delegates Trump: 7 delegates Rubio: 7 delegates That's a dead heat. Also, 72% of Republicans didn't caucus for Cruz, wit...
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Monday, February 01, 2016

Met Governance, Again (and Again and Again)

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Via Parterre  Box, a story in the Times by the estimable Michael Cooper raises the curtain on what's been going on at the Met recently...
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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Tattling: Usher Special Edition

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So, what do you think the responsibilities of music-venue ushers might be? I would say the following: Hand out programs. Help patrons fin...
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Friday, January 29, 2016

London Friday Photo

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Bracken House Astronomical Clock London, Maybe, 2014
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

NY Phil Appoints Jaap van Zweden

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Jaap van Zweden NY Philharmonic Photo Jaap van Zweden, currently music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Hong Kong Phil...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Whoever Could Have Predicted?

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Jonas Kaufmann out of the Met's upcoming  Pagliacci  and Manon Lescaut , owing to illness. This will have a domino effect, with Robert...
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