Thursday, January 7, 2010
Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 7:30 PM Conductor: Edo de Waart Production: Nathaniel Merrill Stage Director: Robin Guarino Main Cast: Renée Fleming (Marschallin), Susan Graham (Octavian), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Baron Ochs), Christine Schäfer (Sophie), Eric Cutler (Italian tenor). The first twenty people or so who make it into line for the Met’s $20 […]
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Tagged death, der rosenkavalier, dyad, dyads, hoffmannsthal, hugo von hoffmannsthal, libretto, Love, marschallin, met, met opera, metropolitan opera, mortality, ochs, octavian, Opera, philosophy of love, renee fleming, richard strauss, romantic, rosenkavalier, strauss, susan graham, tempus fugit
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Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 8 PM STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN, cond. Pierre Boulez Westminster Symphonic Choir, dir. Eberhard Friedrich Soloists: Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano), Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) MAHLER | Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ For me, as for many Mahler devotees I’ve known or known of (and not only the fabled Gilbert Kaplan, for whom it was a […]
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Tagged abbado, adorno, boulez, cellos, classical music, klemperer, mahler, michelle deyoung, Opera, orchestras, reviews, simon rattle, staatskapelle berlin, symphonies, symphony, tannhäuser, wagner
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Fidelio at the Met. Karita Mattila sang Leonore’s role gorgeously, and she was impressively spry as Fidelio, too, scampering around the stage with boyish aplomb, scooting up and down ladders, bearing groceries. Apart from the limpid quartet in the opening act and the arpeggiated vocal mountaineering of the ‘Abscheulicher!’ duet in the final act, it […]
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Tagged alex ross, beethoven, ben heppner, brattle theatre, claire denis, drama, fidelio, florestan, french films, harvard film archive, heldentenors, james levine, karita mattila, leftism, leonore, peter watkins, richard margison, the left, theatre, zizek
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Saturday, October 22, 2005
I’ve long been haunted by toilet scenes in two particular films — Coppola’s The Conversation and (less famously) Andrzej Zulawski‘s The Possessed. It was nice to discover, then, that artist Margaret Morgan has compiled some other cinematic toilet scenes in her video Toilet Training — which, she writes, ‘began as a response to my research […]
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Tagged coppola, duchamp, Film, hitchcock, movies, possession, psycho, rheingold, the conversation, toilets, zizek, zulawski
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Monday, September 6, 2004
We know something about Wittgenstein’s architectural designs, and about Schoenberg’s paintings. Perhaps there’s a book to be written on philosophers who composed music: Rousseau, Nietzsche, Adorno. More on Nietzsche: in this month’s Atlantic Monthly, Terry Castle’s brief omnibus review of “astonishing memoirs by (and about) deeply repellent people” recommends Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth […]
A famous British chemist, Dr. Charles Henry Maye, tried to determine exactly what man is made of and what is man’s chemical worth. Here are the results of his scholarly research. The amount of fat found in the body of an average human being would be enough to make seven pieces of soap. There is […]
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Happiest discovery of the week: thanks to the friendly pilferers at Textz.com, the full German texts of Minima Moralia and Dialectic of Enlightenment have been made available online. OpenApple+F does the work of a concordance. Autonomedia/Interactivist reports on related copyright hoopla.
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Saturday, January 31, 2004
Weight is a value for me… the balancing of weight, the diminishing of weight, the addition and subtraction of weight, the concentration of weight, the rigging of weight, the propping of weight, the placement of weight, the locking of weight, the psychological effects of weight, the disorientation of weight, the disequilibrium of weight, the rotation […]
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Tagged difficulty, fire, forge, heft, iron, Labor, richard serra, sculpture, serra, sisyphus, stell, strenuousness, vulcan, weight
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