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Being somebody Why a second-rate opera composer is second-rate, and why creating musical drama isn't strictly a musical composition skill....
Greg Sandow | 10/06/08@09:00AM

Opera titles mean something Why opera titles aren't just a neutral element in a performance....
Greg Sandow | 10/05/08@02:58PM

WTF City Opera lays off 11 full-time staff. Did they have any idea they'd be that short of cash, when they...
Greg Sandow | 10/04/08@02:48PM

Berlioz in Opera News Berlioz is the most theatrical of composers -- but his operas mostly don't work. I explore that paradox in the...
Greg Sandow | 10/03/08@06:31PM

Music Director Residency: Quality Time Is What Counts I have assisted many orchestras, mid-sized and small, in music director searches. Often a music director has been present for...
On the Record | 10/03/08@09:50AM

It can be done An major orchestra gets a fashion designer to design its concert dress. (A short entry -- just the facts.)...
Greg Sandow | 10/02/08@12:46PM

"Il ciel s'oscura" How opera translations rob Italian opera of its flair -- part 2...
Greg Sandow | 10/02/08@12:32PM

Classical Reflections Correcting the balance between Clementi and Mozart....
PostClassic | 10/01/08@07:32PM

Alaska Airlines revives Portland Jazz Fest The regional air carrier saves a Pacific Northwest music showcase...
Jazz beyond Jazz | 10/01/08@09:16AM

Snapshot This week's video: Lotte Lenya sings "Surabaya Johnny."...
About Last Night | 09/30/08@10:07PM

Berklee College, Boston: a jazz education mecca Smart students, hip faculty, yet one wonders: What can players gain from school?...
Jazz beyond Jazz | 09/30/08@01:15PM

Behind And In Front Of The Proscenium At SF Opera Experiencing SF Opera's Simon Boccanegra two ways...
lies like truth | 09/29/08@06:15PM

Acousmatics Versus Soundscapers There's apparently an interesting debate between electronic composers who use environmental sounds abstractly versus identifiably. Know anything?...
PostClassic | 09/28/08@08:18PM

A Marketing Revamp for Chanticleer? Why the lauded all-male vocal ensemble should ditch the penguin suits and stiff speeches...
lies like truth | 09/28/08@02:30PM

Cleveland needs a strategy My Wall Street Journal piece on the Cleveland critic mess ran today. The orchestra needs a PR strategy....
Greg Sandow | 09/27/08@10:44AM

Cleveland critic mess I have a piece on this tomorrow -- Saturday -- in the Wall Street Journal. The Cleveland Orchestra, I think,...
Greg Sandow | 09/26/08@01:59PM

Attention, John Sayles Why the director of "Honeydripper" needs to give me a call--ASAP....
About Last Night | 09/26/08@06:13AM

The Rosenberg Case again. And the Met reopens. Someone's making waves on Lake Erie's shores, but quiet flows the Hudson....
Overflow | 09/25/08@06:38PM

In the Loop: Internal Communication Is Essential to Good Governance In any number of orchestras that I have visited recently, it has become clear to me that a big problem,...
On the Record | 09/25/08@01:18PM

Something's wrong... ...when one of the world's leading singers delivers her big aria, at the Met, and the audience hardly applauds. Why...
Greg Sandow | 09/25/08@09:43AM

Buzzing How do we expect to sell classical albums when no one knows/cares about them before they're released?...
Life's a Pitch | 09/25/08@07:10AM

You Can't Sing A Footnote On the limits of the authentic performance movement...
lies like truth | 09/24/08@08:40AM

Alternative publicity outlets Did you know Air Force One had in-flight entertainment?...
Life's a Pitch | 09/23/08@08:31AM

Flying Blind Learning plainchant by ear is surprisingly easy and fun...
lies like truth | 09/23/08@08:11AM

Another Rosenberg "executed" About Donald Rosenberg's "virtual demotion"...
Overflow | 09/21/08@09:44PM






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