Havoc
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It seems like Ontario is changing its policy on what’s open and what’s not
and who gets vaccinated and who doesn’t about three times/week right now
and, am...
Chutney
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Is it April already? The self sown tomato plant in my garden (last post)
produced lots of tiny tomatoes, many of which were green when I pulled the
plant o...
Wagner in Amerika. Deel 2 : 1917-1941(1)
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Helen Traubel (1948)
*Eerste deel van Hans Rudolf Vagets essay dat de receptie van Wagner
schetst in de Verenigde Staten tijdens het interbellum in de cont...
Music Lounge (37)
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Una furtiva lagrima from Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore is one of the most
famous arias in the repertoire. There is no tenor that has never sung it –
the dis...
Stravinsky demeure
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On the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Igor Stravinsky. Do any
composer's oeuvre and 'voice' take in quite so much of the twentieth
century and muc...
Elusivo Everest del Lied
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Abordar El viaje de invierno de Franz Schubert presupone escalar un
Everest; repetirlo es lugar común que nunca está de más, no por la altitud
sino por la ...
The Write Of Spring
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The winter is over. The Covid night not. This is the Wagner & Heavy Metal
Spring blog post. A write-up that pays a visit to Venice, Phillip Gwynn
Jones and...
Sleeping Forever Beneath the Dry Earth (Part 5)
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Shostakovich talking with Rudolf Barshai in the early 1970s
And here is the final part of my book. I am really pleased with a lot of
what's in this part ...
Eglerio! Tolkien Sessions at Leeds IMC 2021
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Greetings all! I hope all are doing well during these mad times. In the
darkest hours of lockdown and uncertainty I have kept in mind and heart
that gr...
The Longue Durée of German Intellectual History
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It's time to write something. It's a bit of recent commentary on an old
post prompted by a new comment made on Goodreads about my review of
Sherratt's Hi...
Still Trying to Walk Home
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<Before the November election, I wrote about my walks that grew longer and
longer taking me further and further from home as the distractions of
the politi...
David Hockney’s “Wagner Drive”
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In the (excellent) issue of The New Yorker Magazine dated January 18, 2021,
music critic Alex Ross reports on an experiential encounter with Wagner
that wa...
BBC Proms 2020, or, A Proms Miscelleny for Week 3
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Welcome to the second instalment of this rather mad combination of
Previously at the Proms/What the critics said...
*Monday 3rd August - Lunchtime Chamber ...
It’s a pandemic, you can cut the recit
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It is I, your blogger, shut inside a house, like everyone. I watched the
Met’s At-Home Gala this afternoon and have some thoughts. Many of the
performances...
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Ligeti, Atmosphères
Wagner, Prelude to Lohengrin Act 1
Berg, Violin Concerto
Brahms, Symphony No. 3 in F major
Vienna Philharmonic
Christoph von Dohnányi, ...
El desafío de Werther en Lima
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*La magnífica ópera de Massenet, obra cumbre del romanticismo francés,
llega en una extraordinaria producción de la Ópera de Colombia, para abrir
la Tempo...
Twerp it.
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Review – Salome (English National Opera, Friday 28 September 2018) Salome –
Allison Cook Jokanaan – David Soar Herod – Michael Colvin Herodias – Susan
Bick...
Royal Opera House announces Ring Cycles for 2018!
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Very excited by this announcement. Must start saving now…. ADVANCE
ANNOUNCEMENT Four full cycles performed September–November 2018 The 2018/19
Season open...
continuing as the flying surgeon
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As some of you may have noticed this blog has been inactive the last couple
of years. When I started this blog I worked in Denmark, but in 2011, after
I be...
The Most Terrifying Aria In All Of Opera
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The most terrifying aria in all of opera, or why Mozart stands alone as a
composer of dramma per musica. (Our thanks to The Music...
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*JULES BASTIN, BASSE CHANTANTE*
BASTIN was born in Waterloo in 1933. He was a Belgian operatic bass* who*
made his debut in 1960 at *La Monnaie*, singing ...
Carmen Aldrich
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Carmen at Chorégie d’Orange was TV live broadcast less than two weeks ago.
Contrary to the Puccini operas or the dreaded Verismo repertoire, Carmen is
alwa...
All-Wagner Concert on Friday, May 21
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Please join us for "Exquisite Love Duets and Solos by Richard Wagner," on
Friday, May 21, 2010, at Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge,
Massachu...