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 at Carnegie by the Minnesota Orchestra. In the 258 posts […]
Opera
Neighborhood Opera
The idea of putting on amateur opera in New York seems, at first, a fool’s game, what with two of the world’s greatest opera companies at our disposal. But, in
Nuclear Opera
Last night, I heard John Adams' Doctor Atomic at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the experience was as searing and devastating as the title indicates. In unscripted remarks made
Must Have Mortier
For those looking for a little taste of what to look forward to with the arrival of Gerard Mortier as City Opera’s next director, WNYC’s Katherine Lanpher hosted a 90
An American Tragedy
I only made it to City Opera in time for the second act of last night’s performance of Margaret Garner, but that was long enough to capture the essence of
A Berskshires Marathon – Part II
I was back at Tanglewood less than twelve hours after I’d left Friday night, just in time to catch the start of the BSO’s weekly open rehearsal. These rehearsals have
Disturbing News
According to Dan Wakin in today’s Times, tenor Jerry Hadley, who has suffered from depression and financial troubles for several years – shot himself in the head with an air
Rewind x2
It’s been 38 years since Richie Havens opened the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, with a rousing three hour set of songs about love, protest, and, of course, freedom. He
The People’s Diva
Word just in that Beverly Sills, the soprano from Crown Heights who enjoyed an illustrious career on the world’s great opera stages but made her name as a 25-year fixture