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Conservatory Bound: I just remembered...
http://toodamnedold.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-just-remembered.html
Applications in, results pending. Sunday, September 6, 2009. When I was a kid, my parents somehow got ahold of certain audio tapes made by a Canadian company Classical Kids. We did a lot of driving around on weekends as I was growing up, and it was always engaging to hear these stories. My sister and I are really big on nostalgic repetition - I guess we kept that childhood habit of wanting a favorite bedtime story read to us nightly. Is rad as hell). My kids LOVE these CDs and are also into repetition!
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Conservatory Bound: Why stop there?
http://toodamnedold.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-stop-there.html
Applications in, results pending. Tuesday, August 18, 2009. In the bonus portion of the Glyndebourne DVD of Poppea, so and so talks about the first production of Poppea directed by Raymond Leppard. His orchestration is pretty out of current taste when dealing with this period of rep, but at the time, it was fresh, new, and because it was only the very beginning of the historically informed performance movement, it was a miracle at all it was put on. The problem is - why stop there? Probably. Should t...
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Conservatory Bound: return from hiatus
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Applications in, results pending. Saturday, August 15, 2009. I have another thought arising from the musical side of the DVD and Raymond Leppard and all sorts of justifying practices/decisions encountered in classical music, but that'll be for tomorrah. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Chasing a dream by joining the footrace to become a singer, only I'm still trying to crash the registration while everyone is already queuing up at the starting line. Follow me on Twitter. Get the Flash Player.
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Deceptively Simple: An expert opinion on Doctor Atomic
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Music and culture from Marc Geelhoed in Chicago. All-time greatest line used by a homeless man to cadge spare change from passersby. When the going gets gruff. He made us better. Now in its third season. An expert opinion on Doctor Atomic. Berlioz and the painful sham. Edward Geelhoed, 1921-2007. Olga Neuwirth's Lost Highway. Bring in da noyz. Review of The Rest Is Noise. Theory, meet practice. Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony. Who should they hire then, Mr. Muti? Time out for pretty. At the Metrop...
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Deceptively Simple: 2007's Top 10 Classical CDs + Honorable Mention + Gift Guide
http://deceptivelysimple.typepad.com/simple/2007/12/1-artemis-quart.html
Music and culture from Marc Geelhoed in Chicago. All-time greatest line used by a homeless man to cadge spare change from passersby. When the going gets gruff. He made us better. Now in its third season. An expert opinion on Doctor Atomic. Berlioz and the painful sham. Edward Geelhoed, 1921-2007. Olga Neuwirth's Lost Highway. Bring in da noyz. Review of The Rest Is Noise. Theory, meet practice. Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony. Who should they hire then, Mr. Muti? Time out for pretty. Karl Amadeus ...
notsowunderbar.blogspot.com
Not so wunderbar: July 2012
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Inconsequential thoughts literally as I think them, in real time. Thursday, 26 July 2012. Enough with the semantics already, aka Well Done Scotland. I lost my virginity illegally. I was 18, and he was 23. We were couple of kids, I realise now. But the thing is, in 1991 it was against the law. My cackhanded handjob was something for which the unlucky recipient could have been prosecuted, and labelled the worst kind of criminal. Wanted it to change, but I had a vague. I was the ‘innocent party’...Here I wa...
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Not so wunderbar: Fever Bitching.
http://notsowunderbar.blogspot.com/2014/04/fever-bitching.html
Inconsequential thoughts literally as I think them, in real time. Thursday, 17 April 2014. This season, in particular, ‘pleasure’ has not been the word to apply to any but the most cringingly masochistic of Fulham fans. We have lost about ten matches more than we’ve played. We’ve conceded more goals than have been scored in the entire history of football. Yes, there’s an orgasmic buzz when it goes well (‘Dempsey- FOUR-ONE! 23 August 2015 at 14:39. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). If you're reading thi...
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Not so wunderbar: Tinfoil hat. But then he would say that, wouldn't he?
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Inconsequential thoughts literally as I think them, in real time. Friday, 12 September 2014. Tinfoil hat. But then he would say that, wouldn't he? Note: this blog post has been tested by an independent adjudicator- well, me- and found to be totally neutral. By me. Suck it.). So The whole indyref thing. Isn't it awful how the BBC is totally pro-union and constantly pushing a pro-union message? THEY'RE PUSHING THE THING I HATE! And once you've seen it, it's pretty easy to believe it. Secondly: In stark par...
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OperaBlog: 01/01/2004 - 02/01/2004
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Discussion of opera (the music genre, NOT the web browser) and internet opera broadcasts. Saturday, January 31, 2004. There are five parameters, IMO, in the Wagner tenor rep: endurance at the top of the range, strength and amplitude in the low, stamina through a long role, eccentricities of musical style and, finally, consistency of heavy orchestral writing surrounding the role's vocal line. For endurance at the top of the range, some have a more overwhelmingly taxing high tessitura than others. Again, a...
