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What Alec Baldwin Brings to the New York Philharmonic
It had to happen sooner or later. Today’s Web edition of The New York Times has a piece by Daniel Wakin that will appear in the Arts and Leisure Section of this Sunday’s paper edition. The subject is Alec Baldwin in his new role as the...
Talent for What?
Talent for What? It all began when my colleague, SF Opera Examiner Cindy Warner, called my attention to the YouTube clip of a salesman at CarPhone Warehouse in Britain singing “Nessun Dorma” on Britain’s Got Talent. I have never...
Let Dudamel be Dudamel!
Whose idea was it to start referring to Gustavo Dudamel as “The Dude?” Is this an inevitable piece of baggage that he is going to have to carry around Los Angeles in the same vein as the “Dudamel Dog” now available at Pink’s...
Things Change Over 25 Years
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Things Change over 25 Years When I wrote that the last time I had heard the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam perform a symphony by Gustav Mahler was about 25 years ago, when Bernard Haitink was chief conductor and...
