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Classical Music
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Monday, October 8, 2012
The German Opera Project: “Wagner’s Dream” (VIFF 2012)
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It’s nice to know that in parts of North America, high culture can still be a big deal. In the fall of 2010, New York was in a furor when ...
Friday, August 26, 2011
The German Opera Project: the Bregenz Festival
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Much can be said of stripped-down theatrical productions that do not diminish the power of the work. I once saw a production of The Laramie ...
Monday, July 11, 2011
Random Acts of Culture, #1
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Tovey and the VSO (source: The Georgia Straight) It’s often said, at least in North America, that the higher arts are inaccessible to ...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
The German Opera Project: Wagner's Ring in San Francisco
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Achtung, Ring nuts! It would be remiss of the Blogger not to advise all of you who have been following my self-directed German Opera Pr...
Sunday, June 5, 2011
The Caged Bird Sings: Alicia Keys’s Songs in A Minor
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As I had said before in my piece on Adele , sometimes all you need is a piano and a voice. Alicia Keys remains one of the greatest musical ...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The German Opera Project: Go Big Or Go Home
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Hyper Smash As a child, I saw the classic Looney Tunes animated short “What’s Opera, Doc?” It was my first introduction to high culture,...
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