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My Favorite Intermissions: On with the show/Off with her head
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Sunday, January 31, 2010. On with the show/Off with her head. You know, If you'd told me I'd get my first opportunity to see Anna Bolena in a little theater with maybe twelve rows of seats in the East Village I'd have told you to pull the other one, but that's how it went down. I've listened to Bolena on recording for half an age and have been dying to see it. I s'pose you could call me Bo-curious. But you don't have to. She's just very good, and made much of the wonderful final scene.). For claritys sak...
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My Favorite Intermissions: April 2009
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Thursday, April 30, 2009. So I was on the A train and there was a subway musician which can be a headache (percussion groups! Hi, this is a really small space! Or a delight (mariachis! And as it turned out, she was swell. And I gave her like the world's most lousy subway musician tip because I didn't have change so I'm making up for it by making sure a couple more people see her. 'atsall. ETA: I didn't make the vid, btw. Just embedded it.]. Monday, April 27, 2009. Get the ring back! Loudest anyway if you...
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My Favorite Intermissions: September 2009
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009. Myths of the Traditionalists, or: Being Offended Does Not Make You Right (A musical huff in five parts). 1) Directors reënvisioning canonical works do not do so because they think the work isn't good enough to hold our interest. I'm particularly weary of the "what, Figaro isn't good enough. Cavil It's either disingenuous or intellectually lazy. Shows no evidence of an aesthetic connection with the work outside of the dance sections and no evident feel for coherent stage pic...
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My Favorite Intermissions: November 2009
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Thursday, November 26, 2009. Let's maybe see how much blithering I can get in before I get tired of thumb-typing. Oh hey I'm on a real computer now. Where was I? Convinced it's not terribly new. The Brechtian device of actors speaking the stage directions (paging the estate of Virgil Thompson! It's good to revisit a production a year later and evaluate it from a settled place of familiarity. Sher's Barbiere struck me as more facile and un-involving on second viewing, for instance, whereas Jack O'Brie...
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My Favorite Intermissions: FOUR WORDS
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Friday, January 29, 2010. But since I never stop at four words: this makes me sad to live so far away, as someone who has often found Zajick a mix of staggering and a little bit mundane but who has on occasion thought "oh but I bet in Wagner.". Actual entry soon. I think. Oh man, that cast would be so sick. If they phone in the casting on potentially the last incarnation of those sweet sweet rectangles I will never forgive them. Time to start calling your congressmen, people. Four very interesting words.
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My Favorite Intermissions: Plácido Domingo Announces Washington National Opera's 2010-11 Season
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010. Plácido Domingo Announces Washington National Opera's 2010-11 Season. Or so says google. 34 minutes ago. Can't get the link to work. Ah, jeez. Ms. Midgette breaks it to us gently: " WNO's 2010-11 season to be filled with popular, less risky works. Highlights include Racette as Iphigenie and Voigt as Salome. The rest- you got fingers, eh? Click like the wind! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). On with the show/Off with her head. From the Funny/Disturbing File. The Rest is Noise.
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My Favorite Intermissions: July 2009
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Saturday, July 18, 2009. Frank martin- - lulz. Maury: i think i mean mahler, not strauss. DSJ: he sprinkles his elegant neoclassicism with tone-rows. Maury: it feels more immediately listener-friendly than berg. Maury: sorry, i actually really hate the game of "one hears echoes of puccini in the score." i am always turned off by reviews that do that. DSJ: Well, you know, he's Swiss, so half French and half Austrian is about right. DSJ: Carla fucking Bruni fucking Sarkozy! Maury: or vice versa. Except tha...
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My Favorite Intermissions: February 2010
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010. In which I am an idiot. Um, yes. I wrote that entire review and did not say the name of the opera company. I have to have like ten hours of sleep or I'm not functional. It's very sad really. Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble. And, as an anonymous commenter helpfully adds, photos are available at the company's site. Wwwdellarteopera.org, if that link isn't working, which for some reason it seems not to be.]. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). In which I am an idiot. The Rest is Noise.
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My Favorite Intermissions: June 2009
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009. I'll let you try and figure out the elusive connection between these there videos. (Hint: there isn't one.). Ok, fine. The connection is they all make me happy. Thanks to the people that posted them. The last one, yes, is bittersweet, in that it explains a certain amount about my love life: born too late to gaymarry Glenn Gould. Wednesday, June 03, 2009. The Professor and Mary Ann. Mary Stuart second viewing: still fucking splendid. Pity we won't get to see if it wins best r...
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My Favorite Intermissions: March 2010
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Thursday, March 25, 2010. Five years is a long time to do anything. Well it's not quite five years. Four and a half. But sometimes life hands you bookends. It appears the first thing I wrote up on here- no, wait, the first thing I blogged. The last thing I'm going to blog is also going to be Ariadne. [This did not turn out to be true exactly, though La Cieca posted a Wellsungian chat about it between me and the Squirrel.]. So as far as My Favorite Intermissions is concerned, the gongs done gung as I am w...
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