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29 July 2006

Elective Affinities

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One of the things I love most about Amazon.com, my little on-line crackhouse, is their recommendations. Not so much the ones I actually buy,...

Inverted Triangles (Wilde nights with thee)

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The only SF Symphony “Romantic Visions” concert that I managed to hear back in June was Zemlinsky’s Florentine Tragedy, prefaced by three sh...
28 July 2006

th-th-th-that's all, folks!!!

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The San Francisco Opera season came thudding to a close with a coarse, drab revival of one of my favorite operas, The Marriage of Figaro. I ...
27 July 2006

One Fine Day. . . .

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Patricia Racette sang Cio-Cio San in SF Opera’s latest revival of Madama Butterfly. Though I could happily never see Boheme again, I don’t m...

Eternal Flames

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Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans led off SF Opera’s summer season. I was really looking forward to this rarity because I share the perennial fa...
21 July 2006

There's rosemary; that's for remembrance. . . .

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Clearly I haven’t felt much like blogging away, so this entry will be in the nature of an entr’acte. I refer you to The Standing Room, which...
06 July 2006

As with rosy steps the morn. . . .

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Yesterday I was getting set to review the SF Opera’s last three productions of the season when my little plans were derailed by the news of ...
17 June 2006

16 June 1904

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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressingg...
12 June 2006

Ligeti split

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Gyorgy Sandor Ligeti, twentieth century man, May 28 1923 to June 12, 2006. I'm listening to his vocal works now. I've only heard his...
04 June 2006

Plus ca change. . .

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(Sorry, I don't know how to put the cedilla under the "c" in "ca".) Before I went to Houston I read The Letters of C...