Senior Special
This is my dad, James Matthews. He lives with my mom in the house where I grew up in New […]
Opera
Quotable
"I am Music, who in sweet accents can calm each troubled heart, and now with noble anger, now with love,
Pocket Opera
The Birmingham Music Contemporary Group, which is in residence at Zankel Hall this weekend, was founded 20 years ago by
Love and Death
A check of the FoM archives reveals that I’ve yet to post a review from the Metropolitan Opera. Which is
Long Haul
It’s intermission after Act 2 of Wagner’s Tristan Und Isolde, and we’re already past the four hour point. It’s good
A New Venture
Those of you who have been reading this site for awhile know that I am an enthusiastic supporter of New
I’m a Toddler
One year ago today, I wrote my first Feast of Music entry, about a concert I’d heard the night before
Neighborhood Opera
The idea of putting on amateur opera in New York seems, at first, a fool’s game, what with two of
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Nuclear Opera
Last night, I heard John Adams' Doctor Atomic at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the experience was as searing