Chesnokov: O Lord God
The Concordia Choir
… and writings.
Frustrated fans pleading for something — anything — to be done to stop the Pirates’ losing ways are likely to find little to cheer about in the baseball team’s latest move.
They fired a pierogi.
I found it, thanks to Susan Laney Spector’s blog entry over at Perfect Pitch.
One of the reasons I don’t blog anonymously is that having my name out there causes me to be a little more careful about what I write. I’m still not always careful enough, much to my embarrassment. But I do try to be cautious.
Facebook is a bit more protected … but not really. People there assume that what they write will only be seen by their “friends” (a term used quite generously, as so many on our lists aren’t really friends, but merely acquaintances). But we all know that friends can make mistakes. Friends can share. Friends can also use printers and print out a page from your Facebook page. And, sad but true, friends can become “unfriends”. (We “unfriend” people … we never “enemy” them. Hmm.) So even with Facebook I suggest that if it’s not something you are willing to see published on a universal billboard you’d be best to keep your fingers still and not type. Truly.
Opera Chic’s take on the whole mess?
If you don’t feel like putting on a show because you’re protesting for what you perceive as your inalienable workers rights, stay home. Strike. And let the opera house cancel the show, refund the ticket buyers (Platea and front-row Palchi tickets for la Scala, will set you back 224.40 euros, i.e. 277.93 US dollars).
RTWT and come back here.
Okay. Did you read it?
Now … wanna join in and tell me what you think? I wonder if readers here would know what I think on this one. Hmmm. Maybe, instead, you want to comment on what you think I would think! Go for it.
Ah, Ms. Netrebko:
On conductors
“There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music, but also listen to the singers and do the orchestra. And then there are great conductors, who have their own opinion on the music, who are ruling everything – and not listening much to the singers, but the orchestra play amazingly. I prefer it when the conductor follows me. It is more difficult to work with a conductor who does not listen – even if I understand that sometimes it makes sense when one person is ruling everything. But for bel canto, I have to have a conductor who listens and supports me.”
The above is only a brief taste. You really have to read it all.
Lief brought her oboe home tonight. It sounds like a dying duck. I am laughing SO hard…… right now….. how long before it gets really annoying??
Some interesting typos from oboists:
needed for reed making: “Goughing Machine”
& what to do before you wind that “goughed” & shaped piece of cane on to the staple: “scorn” the cane
Since every reader (and reeder) here knows that I am not the world’s best proofreader of my own blog, please know I’m just havin’ a bit ‘o fun here. :-)
Also, told [name removed] about my ambition to be an oboe player in the sexy band in Cabaret, and she now thinks I’m frivolous/deluded/both
Their sound for the 21?2-hour musical “Cinderella Enchanted” (which closes this weekend) is so on time and clear it could be canned tunes.
I realize the writer meant this as a compliment. But that's not how some of us see it.
Or is this, once again, just me? Hmmm.
Reading the entire article makes me thankful not to have to do jobs like this:
This pit, the orchestra pit, is 20-feet long, 61?2-feet wide and 6-feet deep — 6 feet under being an appropriate phrase, because in this pit six musicians are buried and out of sight to an audience that sometimes doesn’t realize they’re there.
First line in an article I just read:
Good thing the Omaha Chamber Music Society musicians have talent.
I read it here.
Whew! What a relief, eh?
Okay. Maybe it doesn’t hit you the way it hits me. I realize I can be a bit … oh, I dunno … off.
[name here] is sweating because he was playing his Oboe. :)
had such a productive day, O___o apart from forgetting my Oboe for the concert, that was a mistake…
Members of the South Africa Vuvuzela Philharmonic Orchestra, widely considered to be among the best large-scale monotonic wind instrument ensembles in the world, told reporters Friday they were furious over the recent outbreaks of international soccer matches during their traditional outdoor concerts.
“I cannot imagine what is getting into these football teams that they would suddenly begin full-scale international competition just when we are beginning our 2010 concert series,” said Dr. Stefan Coetzee, the Philharmonic’s program and concert director. “It is disrespectful to the performers, it is disrespectful to the music itself, and by extension, it is disrespectful to the great nation of South Africa.”
So what do you think … should the vuvuzelas be banned, or do you love that vuvuzela buzz. Or do you even care? Anyone else watching any of the games? (I’m not exactly addicted, but I’ll check in now and then.)
Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that he’s been commissioned to write the music for a ballet.
Details still need to be fleshed out but he’s already started work on the score and says he’s “enthusiastic” about it.
“I’m interested in doing things I haven’t done before,” he said.
“That offer came up and I love writing music, the two went together and I said, ‘Yeah,’ so I just accept things before I even know what I’m doing.”
There’s no set deadline yet and when asked what the ballet would be about, McCartney admitted it was early days.
“I don’t really know that much about it yet,” he admitted. “I’m just writing music for it, but it’s a switch!”
I found, yet again, a real estate news page providing personal information about a well known oboist in a major symphony orchestra. It shows his photo, with his oboe in hand. He is selling his 3.5-bath 2,0101 square foot home. It gives the address. It tells me what he paid for the home and what he’s asking. (It’s a beautiful home, by the way!) I won’t put a link here. I’m just so appalled at the lack of privacy. I realize that homes are on the internet and everyone can find all that information. I’m just bugged that they then give the owner’s profession and show his picture as well. (I do wonder if he even knows.)
Doesn’t it seem as if this sort of thing should be available so easily to everyone? Or am I just ridiculously crazy thinking that way?
Oh well. I know that when Dan and I finally sell this place my oboe playing won’t be newsworthy enough to appear anywhere.
