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Mezzo summit 27 Aug 2013 | 06:01 pm
Joyce DiDonato speaks with Janet Baker on the occasion of the latter's eightieth birthday. Baker made so many extraordinary recordings; the one that I could not possibly live without is her Kindertote...
Wagner of the day 27 Aug 2013 | 04:32 pm
The Meistersinger quintet, with Elisabeth Schumann, Lauritz Melchior, Friedrich Schorr, Gladys Parr, Ben Williams, and John Barbirolli conducting the London Symphony, 1931.
Castorf oil 26 Aug 2013 | 06:20 pm
James Jorden, aka La Cieca, is in Bayreuth, grappling with Frank Castorf's Ring production on its last go-round. His reaction is so far not unlike mine — impressed by some aspects of the staging, madd...
She had a dream 25 Aug 2013 | 01:14 am
As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King's great speech, I hope that Marian Anderson does not go unmentioned. A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin had first envisaged a March on Washi...
Wagner of the day: Fremstad 24 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
“The opera-glass will never betray any of Mme. Fremstad’s secrets,” Willa Cather once wrote of the Norwegian-American soprano Olive Fremstad, who worked her way from a little Minnesota town to the mos...
De Profundis 24 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
The early death of Lili Boulanger, at the age of twenty-four, was one of the great losses of musical history. Her setting of Psalm 130, composed between 1914 and 1917, stands as a memorial to the terr...
Wagner of the day 24 Aug 2013 | 04:09 am
Wagner lists 23 Aug 2013 | 05:34 pm
Four New York Times critics have published lists of their favorite Wagner recordings. I concur with several of the choices and understand the rationale for others. I thought I'd list a few Wagnerian t...
There's more 22 Aug 2013 | 06:34 pm
A disclosure from the blog Song of the Lark: months before the lockout began, the Minnesota Orchestra Association bought up domain names that could be used by the musicians and their supporters. The r...
