Operatic revisions. On Verdi’s Don Carlos.
Boston Globe, July 22, 2007.
I realized it in time to fix it online, but I made a goof in the print version, where I inadvertently imply that the scene of Carlos’s trial appears in all the revisions; of course, it was eliminated in the 1884 and 1886 versions. (This may have been a Freudian slip on my part—the inclusion of the trial is, perhaps, the only aspect in which I prefer the original, as it frames the ending so it’s less did-you-get-the-number-of-that-truck abrupt.)
Globe Articles
Seufzer, Tränen
Reviewing Thomas Hampson.
Boston Globe, July 19, 2007.
Out of the Past
Reviewing Monadnock Music.
Boston Globe, July 16, 2007.
Muscle beach
Reviewing the Miami String Quartet.
Boston Globe, July 5, 2007.
Cannon at the Fourth
I’m guest-blogging today for Geoff Edgers, who’s enjoying a week off. Head on over for ruminations about everybody’s favorite true-blue-American-by-way-of-Russia Independence Day tradition.
On the Trail
Reviewing the Sick Puppy Iditarod.
Boston Globe, June 25, 2007.
Working Class Dogs
Reviewing Sick Puppy.
Boston Globe, June 21, 2007.
More concerts tonight and tomorrow at 8, and a marathon on Saturday beginning at 5—check here for more info.
Children of all ages
Reviewing Le Poème Harmonique and Tragicomedia.
Boston Globe, June 18, 2007.
Prick Up Your Ears
A flaming skull just isn’t me.
Boston Globe, June 17, 2007.
More on classical music and tattoos. Includes appearances by one-fourth of The Curses, soprano Andrea Gruber, gamba heroine Matchless Orinda, and prima blogger assoluta La Cieca.
Courtside seats
Reviewing The King’s Noyse.
Boston Globe, June 14, 2007.