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I know I can’t complain, but somehow tonight’s show was a rough one to get through. And then my reed died. Ah well. Now I’m trying so very hard to stay up and watch Letterman to see the Met opera folk … but it’s quite doubtful that I’ll make it. This is way past my [...]

So here I am. I just finished the frozen pizza slices, and I’m relaxing for a moment, before I go to get in my black. (Okay, I didn’t really eat frozen pizza, in case you were wondering! I did use an oven. I’m smart that way.) Opera rehearsal went fine, and now I have to [...]

Most folks have heard about MMO or “Music Minus One”: you can purchase CDs of the accompaniment to solo works, and then play along. Of course the accompaniment determines what you have to do tempo-wise, and it’s pretty limiting. So now there’s “Music Plus One”. The man who has put this together, Christopher Raphael, is [...]

Sigh. “We’ve heard, like everyone else, that opera is dying. It’s something that people associate with octogenarians. But we believe it can be made relevant to a young demographic,” says Thiers, who received her master’s degree in opera from Northwestern University. So gee … how the heck to make it relevant for the younger folks? [...]

That’s good news for those of us in the radio biz. And, I hate to say it, but we could even get along fine if all the orchestras in the world shut down tomorrow. There are literally thousands of superb performances available on compact disc of the standard repertory and far, far beyond. Now, if [...]