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LA Phil: 2nd season 6th ep, Weezer
The sixth episode of the second season of the LA Philharmonic's Sound Stage series was a collaboration between the LA rock band Weezer,...
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Jul 2, 20211 min read
Fabulous Friday: Mystery Guest Maria Schell
We're continuing our tour of Europe by spending the month of July in Austria. The mystery guest is actor Maria Schell. Sadly, I know her...
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Jul 1, 20212 min read
BDDS 3rd concert, July 26 2021
I heard the third concert of the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society 2021 season, called “The Master and Margarita.” It was dropped online...
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Jun 30, 20211 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for June 30 2021
My last pair for Pride Month: Diva: Inspiring the young ‘uns Mensch: Honoring the elders
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Jun 29, 20213 min read
Quarantine Concert, June 25 2021
My brother Howard curated a third and possibly final Quarantine Concert, presented by Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. I had...
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Jun 28, 20213 min read
*Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,* June 18, 2021
I watched a production of Shostakovich’s *Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk* online on June 18, 2021 (it was filmed in March 2019). It was...
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Jun 25, 20211 min read
Fabulous Friday: Lypsinka
I'm ending our Pride Month tribute with the one and only Lypsinka. Here's an early clip of The Lyp in performance, way back in 1993. Some...
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Jun 24, 20215 min read
Hyeyung Yoon and friends, June 15, 2021
I went to a concert on June 15, 2021, co-curated by my friend Hyeyung Yoon. I first met her through my first roommate in New York, Greg...
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Jun 23, 20211 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for June 22, 2021
Let's do some Crawford, shall we? Diva: *Mommie Dearest* Mensch: *Mildred Pierce*
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Jun 22, 20212 min read
BDDS 2nd concert, June 19, 2021
I heard the second concert in the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society season on June 21, 2021 (it was dropped online two days before). It...
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Jun 19, 20213 min read
Bloomsday: June 16, 2021
Karen and I attended an online event celebrating Bloomsday on June 16, 2021. I haven’t read hardly any James Joyce, just one or two...
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Jun 18, 20211 min read
Fabulous Friday: Holland Taylor
Continuing our Pride Month theme, here's a cute little clip of Holland Taylor on Larry King:
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Jun 17, 20211 min read
CDA: Ned Beatty and Violetta Elvin
Ned Beatty, rest his soul. He was 83. I think his greatest performance was in *Network.* I read an interview with him somewhere where he...
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Jun 16, 20211 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for June 16, 2021
Richard, our friend Scott, and I saw *The Temperamentals* off Broadway in 2010, a play by Jon Marans about the Mattachine Society, a gay...
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Jun 14, 20212 min read
BDDS, *The Sun Also Rises,* June 12, 2021
I heard the first of four concerts by the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society on June 14, 2021 (it was dropped online on June 12). BDDS is...
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Jun 11, 20211 min read
Fabulous Friday: “June is Bustin’ Out All Over”
God bless Leslie Uggams. One of the funniest moments ever, perfect for June and perfect for Pride Month.
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Jun 9, 20211 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for June 9, 2021
Diva: go go dancers in the Pride March Mensch: marching behind the go go dancers The first time I marched in the NYC Pride March was...
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Jun 6, 20212 min read
The Extinctionist
I watched *The Extinctionist* online on June 1, 2021. It was a film of a live concert performance from PS21 in Chatham, NY on May 29 and...
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Jun 5, 20211 min read
CDA: Rusty Warren
I have to be honest and say I'm not really familiar with the comic Rusty Warren, I only know her by reputation. She was a real...
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Jun 4, 20211 min read
Fabulous Friday: Mystery Guest, Liberace
Of course I have to kick off Pride Month with Liberace as the mystery guest. Here's his first appearance, in 1956: And here he is in...
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2 hours ago12 min read
*Ladies' Voices,* thirty years later
Today is the 30th birthday of my opera Ladies' Voices. I think of it as my Opus One. I wrote about Ladies' Voices in the context of a...
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4 days ago1 min read
Fabulous Friday: Suzanne Charny
Last week I sent out the big dance sequence from the movie of Sweet Charity. The lead female dancer was Suzanne Charny. She was damn...
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