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What's up at the opera, Doc? (unforgettable Warner Bros. cartoon starring Bugs Bunny) Part One 16 Aug 2013 | 11:17 pm
So, when I began my unintended but overlong hiatus from blogging in the spring, Fritz and I were in the final stages of a first draft full libretto for the new opera, Anne Hutchinson. The premiere is...
One more step toward a sculpture garden. 12 Aug 2013 | 09:05 am
Fritz and I were in Maine in the very late spring. He had a gig teaching Chisenbop, aka Korean finger math, at a small arts and educational center in the little town of Hope that is run by a former s...
Opera Festival Weekend 7 Aug 2013 | 08:06 pm
Last weekend was my annual pilgrimage to Cooperstown, NY for the Glimmerglass Opera Festival (yes, Virginia, there is much more than the Baseball Hall of Fame to Cooperstown!) It was my 21st annual t...
Wednesday at the Museum with Fritz and Will 1 Aug 2013 | 07:37 am
Fritz suggested that since we had to go into Manchester for some shopping, we spend some time at the Currier Gallery, the city's museum of art that has made the list of the ten best small museums in t...
Back again after way too long! 29 Jul 2013 | 12:05 am
It's been four months since my last post, a hiatus I never wanted to happen. March and April were very heavy work months, with a major two-day Symposium that I gave on composer Giacomo Puccini at the...
Untitled 5 Mar 2013 | 07:55 am
I drove down to NYC yesterday morning, leaving at 6:30am to make a noon curtain at the Metropolitan Opera. The performance was the new production of Parsifal, Wagner's last opera and, like much of his...
Untitled 24 Feb 2013 | 07:40 pm
A few complaints were lodged on a friend's Facebook page just after the end of Downton Abbey's Season 4, because he had revealed that Matthew Crawley, played by Dan Stevens, had been killed in an auto...
Untitled 17 Feb 2013 | 06:37 pm
Reply I made to a thread on Facebook consisting of all the moth-eaten old idiocy that gay marriage destroys the institution of marriage, and that Christians will be forced to do things against their r...
Untitled 12 Feb 2013 | 08:07 am
Clemency, a one act opera of about an hour's duration by Scottish composer James MacMillan, was co-commissioned by the Boston Lyric Opera and a handfull of companies in the UK. The U.S. premiere was ...
Untitled 1 Feb 2013 | 08:08 am
The question of whether or not same-sex marriage means "the end of gay" came up again on the comment section on a blog I read regularly. The lead-in subject this time was what to do about last names ...
