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Friday, February 05, 2021

Ring Broadcast Alert: Seattle, 2005

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Die Walküre Photo by Chris Bennion, courtesey of Seattle Opera Re-upping this for anyone who might have missed it. I want to add that I saw ...

Friday Photo

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  Mosaic Historic Skyscraper Tour Chicago, November, 2016
Monday, February 01, 2021

Museum Mondays

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  Metropolitan Museum of Art November, 2013
Friday, January 29, 2021

Bonus Friday Photo

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  Cactus June, 2006 Oakland, CA See also: Patrick Vaz's Friday Photo

Friday Photo

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Light bulbs Historic Skyscraper Tour Chicago, November, 2016  
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Thursday, January 28, 2021

Outdoor Tosca

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Photo courtesy of San Francisco Opera/Cory Weaver From San Francisco Opera comes the news that they've rescheduled those drive-in Tosca ...
Monday, January 25, 2021

Museum Mondays

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Bavarian National Museum Munich, August, 2015  
Sunday, January 24, 2021

Online Classes Coming from Prof. Mar Hicks

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Prof. Mar Hicks is a historian "doing research on the history of computing, labor, technology, and queer science and technology studie...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Friday Photo

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Street adjacent to Symphony Center Chicago, November 14, 2016  
Thursday, January 21, 2021

What to Do?

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Quoth Merlina: Nevermore Okay, advice sought! There's an error repeated multiple times in a post at a blog that I read. When I initially...
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Monday, January 18, 2021

Monday Miscellaney

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The Philadelphia Orchestra announced ten new Digital Stage programs to take place between January and June this year; they'll include w...

Bonus Museum Mondays

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Bavarian National Museum Munich, August, 2015 Bonus because I published a photo twice in November, 2020.  

Museum Mondays

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Bavarian National Museum Munich, August, 2015  
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Further Thoughts on SFS Retirements

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Davies Symphony Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch We know from the number of retirements this season and coming up that San Francisco Symphony will ...
Friday, January 15, 2021

Retirements, Many of Them, at San Francisco Symphony

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Davies Symphony Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch It's typical of San Francisco Symphony to announce retirements at the beginning of a new seaso...

Friday Photo

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Walt Disney Concert Hall and LA City Hall October, 2007  
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Monday, January 11, 2021

Musical Chairs Update

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That took less time than I thought it would.  Positions filled: Sao Paulo Symphony: Thierry Fischer has succeeded Marin Alsop. MDR Leipzig R...
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Musical Chairs

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 Okay, this list desperately needs updating, and I would swear I started to do that, but....give me a week, okay? Jader Bignamini is now Mus...

Rattle to Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

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Sir Simon Rattle Photo: Mark Allan / Courtesy of the London Symphony Orchestra The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) spent goodness knows how ...

Museum Mondays

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  Mary McFadden Pleated garment in two states Metropolitan Museum of Art May, 2016
Friday, January 08, 2021

Friday Photo

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Wine Bottles October, 2006  
Monday, January 04, 2021

Museum Mondays

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Greek Sculpture Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC May, 2016  
Friday, January 01, 2021

Friday Photo

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Artichoke  
Thursday, December 31, 2020

Goodbye, 2020, and Good Riddance

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College Avenue, Oakland April 12, 2020 Photo taken from the middle of the street with no risk to the photographer (me). Well, it certainly h...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Music Journalism Insider

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Thanks to a Twitter thread by the redoubtable Steve Smith, whose Substack you should read , I recently learned about the existence of the S...