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Friday, July 31, 2020

Variola Major

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Over on Twitter the other day, I saw someone who should have known better call Larry Brilliant "the man who cured smallpox."  This...

Friday Photo

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Tree Oakland Dimond District March, 2020
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Rolling My Eyes

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So, there's a fawning Maureen Dowd article about Renée Fleming posted at The NY Times web site this morning. When I read it this mornin...
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Monday, July 27, 2020

Museum Mondays

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Classical Statuary Museé du Louvre, Paris October, 2018
Friday, July 24, 2020

Friday Photo

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London Rainy Day May, 2014
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Thursday, July 23, 2020

The First Cancellation of 2021

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Cruise Ship Seen from the Bay Bridge April, 2019 (Not the real JoCo Cruise ship, but the closest I could come in my personal photo collectio...
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Warlikowski on a Certain Type of Fan

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Found in the extremely interesting NY Times profile o f director  Krzysztof Warlikowski: In the interview, Mr. Warlikowski focused his ire ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Very Belated Museum Monday

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Musée National du Moyen Age (Musée de Cluny) From the exhibit "The Birth of Gothic Sculpture" Paris, October, 2018
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Monday, July 20, 2020

Don't Do This: LOL Version

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A small technical writing conference whose mailing list I'm on because I attended it a couple of years back is holding this year's c...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

Opera America Commissions

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Some excellent news about works in development that have received support from Opera America: • Beth Morrison Projects (Brooklyn, NY) for In...

Belated Friday Photo

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Tomatoes and Sunflowers Attempting to Escape Over a Fence (not mine) Oakland, CA July, 2020
Monday, July 13, 2020

Museum Mondays

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Portrait of Marcel Proust Jacques-Émil Blanche Musée d'Orsay, Paris October, 2018
Friday, July 10, 2020

Friday Photo

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Black Lives Matter Fruitvale Triptych July, 2020 (Click to enlarge; the column width is too narrow to display the three photos side-by-side,...
Monday, July 06, 2020

Museum Mondays

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Fountain and Mural Marciano Foundation Museum, Los Angeles (sadly closed) June, 2019
Friday, July 03, 2020

This is Quite a Tell.

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The Philadelphia Orchestra announced a new appointment last month, and hoo boy, the self-tell: ( Philadelphia , June 16, 2020)— The Philadel...
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Friday Photo

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Clock near the Conciergie, Paris February, 2019
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Upcoming Streams at San Francisco Opera

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Janáček’s "The Makropulos Case" with Karita Mattila as Emilia Marty  Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera Well. San Francisco Op...
Monday, June 29, 2020

Museum Mondays

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Cupping set Old Operating Theatre Museum, London November, 2019
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Sexual Abuse, Classical Music Edition, Part ???

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Here are some links that've been floating around open browser tabs for too damn long. Music's Perpetually Open Secret : Allegations ...
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Ojai Virtual Festival

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Libbey Bowl and audience Ojai Festival, 2019 Photo by   Annelies van der Vegt, courtesey of Ojai Festival The other week, the Ojai Festival ...
Friday, June 26, 2020

Friday Photo

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Roof of St. Pancras Station, London November, 2019
Thursday, June 25, 2020

SF Performances, Really?

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Screen shot of SF Performances home page San Francisco Performances is simultaneously asking for donations and bravely (?) acting as though ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Ten Years Ago

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Davies Symphony Hall Ten years ago, I was thinking about who might be the next music director of the San Francisco Symphony . You c...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Rubin Institute

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Rubin Panel This year, especially, the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism panel is way too homogenous: eight white-presenting men and two ...
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Monday, June 22, 2020

Museum Mondays

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Crandall Typewriter San Francisco Airport June, 2017