Alex Ross Discovers Diachronic Listening

I have to confess that, while I have not been shy about my negative impressions, I really enjoyed reading Alex Ross’ post to his The Rest is Noise blog this morning, entitled “Chord of the curse.” In all fairness, however, I should...

San Francisco Remembers Elisabeth Söderström

San Francisco Remembers Elisabeth Söderström Today’s New York Times ran Anthony Tommasini’s obituary for the Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström, who died on Friday in Stockholm at the age of 82. Tommasini cited the Marschallin in...

Doing It

I just finished reading Cindy Warner’s reflection on her first full Ring experience in Seattle, which she released with the subtitle “Women and warriors need heroes and protection from cowards.” By way of disclaimer, I should state...

Remembering Hildegard Behrens

I did not immediately jump to my keyboard when the news of Hildegard Behrens’ death first broke. However, having now read Joshua Kosman’s excellent San Francisco Chronicle obituary for her, I realize that I have a few personal points to add....

Continuing Interest in Samuel Barber

Sunday, January 13, 2008 Continuing Interest in Samuel Barber The high point of my opportunity to hear Deborah Voigt perform with the San Francisco Symphony finally came last night. While I had been looking forward to hearing...