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I finally finished my Bach project
This was the culmination of a project I set for myself several months ago. First, if you don’t know the B minor Mass you should. It a fantastic piece of music and most musicians would probably agree that it sits near the top of the greatest works of Western music. My goal was to go…
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The Boston Early Music Festival: “Pimpinone” and “Ino”
We caught the final “opera” of the Boston Music Festival last night. “Pimpinone” is a comic ‘opera’ by Telemann. In fact it was written to be performed in the ‘intermezzi’, that is between acts, of a more serious opera. It was quite a bit of fun. The plot is a little outdated – it’s about…
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Babel: A Brief Review
Babel by R. F. Kuang Wow. I’m not sure what I expected but it wasn’t this. This is a Nebula-winning book and probably would have won the Hugo too if the Chinese government had not ‘disqualified’ it. It’s ostensibly about a group of young people who are trained at Oxford to be translators. Except translators…
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This weekend I went to the opera! A short review of ‘Antony and Cleopatra’
The wife and I went to New York this weekend to see the new production of John Adams’ “Antony and Cleopatra”. Here’s the blurb from the Metropolitan Opera web site: The most recent opera by preeminent American composer John Adams—a glorious adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal drama—has its Met premiere. Following her debut in the company…
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Drat. Missed it.
I missed the opera last Saturday. We went to a protest instead. I’m kinda bummed about it because I really do want to hear it (Rossini’s L’assedio di Corinto), but I likely have access elsewhere so I’ll try again another time.
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20 Years Later …
I was looking back over some old blog posts and ran across this: Oof. Times have changed. After 4 years and then 3 months of our current president, the commutation of Scooter Libbey’s sentence by W. now looks so tame. After the pardon of the violent schmucks who stormed the Capitol, who cares that Scooter…
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Saturday Afternoon Opera: Die Zauberflöte
Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinee radio broadcast today! Mozart: DIE ZAUBERFLÖTEEvan Rogister; Ben Bliss (Tamino), Golda Schultz (Pamina), Thomas Oliemans (Papageno), Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Stephen Milling (Sarastro), Thomas Ebenstein (Monostatos), Shenyang (Sprecher) I mean, it’s [The Magic Flute]; who can’t like that? I really like Golda Schultz. We saw her live once, I…
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A brief book review
I thought I’d try cross-posting a brief book review from my LibraryThing account. Surprisingly hard to do, but here it is: The Orb of Cairado by Katherine Addison Set in the Chronicles of Osreth | The Cemeteries of Amalo universe A novella, completely different characters from the other stories above. A good, easy read but…
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This is a test
After a long time away I’m moving my old blog here. It’s hard to believe that the last time I posted Obama was present, He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named was still a wanna be long shot (or maybe he was already nominated; who remembers) and the world still didn’t seem so bad. It stuns me that my last comment…
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