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Enter stage left.
I’ve never been a professional in the world of theater arts. Plenty of ancillary experience via amateur investments of time …yielding a comparable level of skill. In other words, I’m a dabbler, not a master. Not even an apprentice. The closest I’ve come to above-amateur theater involvement (with people who know what they’re doing) is painting a…
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Maybe we need to do “classical music” differently?
I’m concerned. This world of popular “classical music” performance is dying. Despite the awesomeness of performance, of MSUIC, that I wrote about last week — I don’t think it matters how many scholarships we give to kids to hear the symphony play, or how many piano performance students graduate from the local liberal arts college, the market for classical…
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Age of Ultron. Go see it.
The newest Avengers movie. There’s been banter about how it stacks up to the last one, whether you should go see it. Here are my 5 reasons you should go see Avengers: Age of Ultron. Joss Whedon directed and wrote the script. Therefore, the plot holds together well, the snappy and funny dialogue makes you enjoy the…
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The music is in the making
On Friday, I had the privilege of doing one of my favorite things. I stood on a stage with about 100 other singers plus a full orchestra and sang like everything. It was the spring GAMAC Masterworks concert, “Brought to you by the letter B”: Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms; Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes, and Beethoven’s 9th (the…
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Thanks, Scalzi
Several years ago we somehow ran across John Scalzi’s excellent book Old Man’s War. Probably because it was nominated for the Hugo Award that year and our household tends to take note of things like that. And behold, it was good! As a side note, if you can tolerate science fiction at all, meaning if you’ve…
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