Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

I told a friend recently that I had no interest in seeing the film Life of Pi because I admired the book so much. But tonight, watching a r...

Tonight I watched an American opera company's production of a German opera based on a play written in French by an Irishman who then tra...

Carol Vaness, "Per pietà, ben mio, perdona," from Così fan tutte

To a Skylark Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!       Bird thou never wert,  That from Heaven, or near it,       Pourest thy full heart In profus...

George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess . Willard White (Porgy); Cynthia Haymon (Bess); Harolyn Blackwell (Clara); Damon Evans (Sporting Life); Bruc...

Benjamin Britten, Peter Grimes . Jon Vickers (Peter Grimes); Heather Harper (Ellen Orford); Jonathan Summers (Balstrode); Elizabeth Bainbrid...

Benjamin Britten, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Brian Asawa (Oberon); Sylvia McNair (Tytania); Carl Ferguson (Puck); Robert Lloyd (Bottom);...

Benjamin Britten, Death in Venice . Peter Pears (Gustav von Aschenbach); John Shirley-Quirk (The Traveller, et al .) Members of the English ...

Benjamin Britten, Billy Budd . Philip Langridge (Vere); Simon Keenlyside (Billy Budd); John Tomlinson (Claggart). London Symphony Orchestra ...

We music lovers mostly know what some of those notations like piano and fortissimo mean. Even things like Un poco meno mosso . But the Ger...

I can drive ! Did it twice today, to the grocery store and tonight to the clinic. And it went OK. Yeah, there were a couple of moments when ...

The following review appeared today in the San Francisco Chronicle : A ROMANCE ON THREE LEGS: Glenn Gould’s Obsessive Quest for the Perfect...

Happy New Year from Willie Nelson Dooley Wilson Cyndi Lauper and me.

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This review originally appeared in the San Jose Mercury News. BING CROSBY: A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years, 1903-1940 By Gary Giddin...

This review originally appeared in the San Jose Mercury News. THE COMPLETE LYRICS OF IRVING BERLIN Edited by Robert Kimball and Linda Emmet ...

In commenting on Wilfrid Sheed's book , I pointed out that he had omitted Kurt Weill. This review, which originally appeared in the San ...