The Merc already has the review of Don Giovanni at their site. It’s generally positive. —–
Archive of entries posted on 23rd April 2006
Maybe It’s Okay?
Drew McManus, at Adaptistration, has been posting the TAFTO contributions for this year’s Take A Friend To Orchestra Month. I do hope you are reading them! Brian Sacawa’s offer brought a response that I found puzzling, frustrating, interesting and, finally, “meh” (to quote my daughter Kelsey). Here’s the comment: This is a very interesting post [...]
Small Town Symphony
“It doesn’t make sense to have an orchestra in a town of less than 5,000,” said Lora Lynn Snow, an oboist who co-founded the symphony in 1989. “But we do. It is happening.” Read about the orchestra—and their generous benefactor—here. The eighty-nine year old not only donated money, but also heard the orchestra for the [...]
Symphony Parnassus
The people in the Symphony Parnassus have real jobs. Well, okay, my jobs are real too. I haven’t made them up. Honest! They don’t appear only in my dreams. I even receive (sometimes small) paychecks for what I do. But the people in the Symphony Parnassus receive (much larger, I suspect) paychecks for their “real” [...]
Music Quote
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon. -Johannes Brahms —–