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Fabulous Friday: Kurt Weill
I've been a big Kurt Weill fan since his resurgence in the 80s. My tribute to him features three German singers. First off, Hildegard...
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Apr 15, 20214 min read
*Prima Donna,* April 13, 2021
I watched *Prima Donna* on April 13, 2021. The performance was done from the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm in May 2020. The opera has...
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Apr 14, 20212 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for April 14, 2021
I wanted to do something beer-centric for the German theme but don't know enough about beer to make an informed choice, so I enlisted the...
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Apr 12, 20212 min read
*Verklärte Nacht,* April 12, 2021
I watched *Verklärte Nacht* on April 12, 2021. It’s a dance piece by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker set to a piece by Arnold Schoenberg. The...
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Apr 11, 20213 min read
Stephanie Blythe, April 10, 2021
Richard and I watched a concert online by Stephanie Blythe on April 10, 2021. She’s one of my favorite opera singers, though lately she’s...
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Apr 10, 20211 min read
CDA: Prince Philip
I'd had my eye on this one for a while. 99 is pretty damn impressive! I'll say a prayer for Elizabeth, it really does seem to have been a...
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Apr 9, 20211 min read
Fabulous Friday: Marlene Dietrich
I always refer to Marlene Dietrich as "my first movie star." I discovered her sometime around the age of 12 when the local PBS station...
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Apr 8, 20212 min read
Pascal Le Boeuf premiere, April 5, 2021
I heard the online premiere of a solo piano piece by Pascal Le Boeuf on April 6, 2021 (it was streamed live online the night before). It...
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Apr 7, 20211 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for April 7, 2021
Our theme for the month is Germany and I'm starting with those two great masters of the Baroque, Handel and Bach, sung and conducted by...
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Apr 5, 20212 min read
LA Phil Sound Stage: season 2, first two episodes
The second season of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Sound Stage series opened with artistic director Gustavo Dudamel and his adorable...
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Apr 4, 20213 min read
Steven Banks, March 10, 2021
I heard a recital by saxophonist Steven Banks on April 1, 2021 (it was first dropped online on March 10, 2021). This was Banks’s debut...
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Apr 3, 20212 min read
Anthony McGill, March 9, 2021
I watched a concert online by Anthony McGill, the principal clarinetist of the NY Philharmonic. The concert was called *Cadence: The...
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Apr 2, 20211 min read
Fabulous Friday: Mystery Guest, Helen Traubel
I'm dedicating April to Germany and naturally had hoped to find a mystery guest from Germany, but no luck. Everyone I found who looked...
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Apr 1, 20212 min read
Tamara Mumford, March 29, 2021
I heard Tamara Mumford in concert on March 29, 2021. She’s a young mezzo I’ve heard at the Met a few times, most memorably as The Pilgrim...
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Mar 31, 20211 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for March 31, 2021
I'm closing out our French tribute with a look ahead to next month's trip to Germany: Diva: toy poodle Mensch: standard poodle I think of...
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Mar 30, 20211 min read
CDA: Malcolm Cecil & Larry McMurtry
My brother Howard requested a CDA tribute to Malcolm Cecil. He wrote this: ”Another electronic icon has died. Malcolm Cecil was an...
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Mar 29, 20213 min read
Met Orchestra Musicians, March 28, 2021
I heard the Met Orchestra Musicians in concert on March 29, 2021 (it had been live the day before). This concert was hosted by the divine...
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Mar 28, 20213 min read
*Titon et l’Aurore,* March 26, 2021
I watched *Titon et l’Aurore* online on March 26, 2021. It was a production from the Opéra Comique in Paris, done by Les Arts Florissants...
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Mar 27, 20211 min read
CDA: Jessica Walter & Beverly Cleary
Two alerts from my mom. First, Jessica Walter. What a divine actress! 80 years old. She's best known for *Arrested Development,* and she...
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Mar 26, 20211 min read
Fabulous Friday: "Boléro" x 3
I'm ending our French Fridays with three wonderful performances of Ravel's "Boléro." First, my friend Jim Bingham recently sent me this...
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7 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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