Music for Saint Cecilia - Purcell, Haendel, Haydn _ Les Musiciens du Louvre with Marc Minkowski.

Harry’s lament is Puccini turned upside down By Anne-Elisabeth Moutet Unherd

Harry’s lament is Puccini turned upside down By Anne-Elisabeth Moutet 

Allmächt'ger Vater, blick herab! - Rienzi Richard Wagner Jonas Kaufmann, Thielemann, Staatskapelle Dresden

Quinn Kelsey, currently starring as Rigoletto, with Christian Van Horn, playing the four villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, visiting the Metropolitan Opera Club in New York.

 

Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry Hwang’s Ainadamar is a flamenco 💃🏿- infused passion play loosely based on Lorca’s death at the hands of the Falange. It is not an opera in the usual sense, but it fires up the feelings of the Spanish Civil War effectively, without the usual iconography - Guernica, Hemngway, ¡No Pasarán! etc. Angel Blue as Margarita Xirgu, Daniela Mack as Garcia Lorca, Alfredo Tejada as Ramón Alonso, and Elena Villalón as Nuria.

 

Pianist Vikingur Ólafsson after a magnificent Brahms piano 🎹 concerto #1, with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Maestro Manfred Honeker, and with a lovely encore of a Bach Prelude also in D minor.

 

Bernard-Henri Lévy interviewed by Alana Newhouse, offering a surprising trenchant view of the rot festering here on college campuses and within the cultural left.

 

Seven dead after superyacht Bayesian sinks off Sicily. Was the crew at fault? Or ...

Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 (Live in NYC) | Trinity Church Wall Street

'I am haunted by waters' https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/08/norman-maclean-a-life-of-letters-and-rivers-rebecca-mccarthy-book-review

Kinky Friedman - "They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore" R.I.P.

Manhattanhenge across Central Park

 

'How I Got to the Met' - more than just practice - a conversation focusing on early music education and career, with Metropolitan Opera Club program director John Brewer. From right to left, Choristers: Karen Dixon Jasmine Muhammad and Remy Martin. Orchestra members: Chelsea Knox, flute, Elena Barere, Violin, Hannah Cope, principal harpist. #Metropolitanoperaorchestra #Metropolitanoperachorus #Metropolitanopera

 

Members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra treating us to a performance of the adagio from George Walker’s String Quartet No. 1 including Daniel Khalikov and Yang Xu, violins Mary Hammann, viola, and Julia Bruskin, cello.

 

It's a beautiful day, and this music of joyous men and women in St. Martin-in-the-Fields is perfect for my condolence card to the Caliphate. ‘l’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato’

An homage to Louise Bourgeois? (Petrit Halilaj) on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of New York

 

A pleasure to welcome Clémentine Margaine, who will be starring this spring as Carmen in the new production, to the Metropolitan Opera Club.

 

Käthe Kollwitz, inflicted on us by the tendentious left of our parent’s generation, along with Ben Shahn, etc. deserves a fresh re-examination to appreciate what a formidable artist she was. The current exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art is a great place to start.

 

Composer John Adams joining the cast, chorus and crew of El Niño last night at the Metropolitan Opera, with Julia Bullock J'Nai Bridges Davóne Tines, and Marin Alsop, cond. (Buried in the center, Chorusmaster Donald Palumbo, white hair, red tie...)

From the Côte d'Ivoire a video about the American delegation visiting the Cashew Industry as guests of the Conseil du Coton et de Anarcarde

 

Happy Birthday J. S. Bach - life would be so diminished without him. There must've been something in the stars in 1685.... Kaffeekantate BWV 211 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Michael Stephen Brown at Alice Tully Hall does Hans Von Bülow one better - flawless hours of Ravel, Debussy, Haydn, Liszt, etc., and his own composition without a score! Have any of you ever seen a pianist change socks at intermission? Have you ever heard of Delphine Von Schauroth, apparently an old flame of Mendelssohn's?

 

A fine evening of music making in the Model Room, with Chad Fischer, composer at the guitar, Nathan Meltzer and Mira Wang, violins, Ulrich Eichenauer, viola, and Jan Vogler, cello.

 

The Zeffirelli Turandot is still delightful!

 

The General Manager of Carnegie Hall welcoming the Vienna Philharmonic with Maestro Franz Welser-Möst. An effusively romantic Bruckner 9, followed by Alban Berg’s agita from Three Pieces for Orchestra , Op. 6. made you want to seek out W. H. Auden in one of the dives on 52nd. street.

 

A brief birthday blast for Georg Friedrich Händel - few composers have made me as happy! La resurrezione sacred oratorio in two parts Maestro Václav Luks

Warmest wishes for a speedy recovery - God save King Charles III

 

Maestro Daniele Rustioni, along with Chorus Master Donald Palumbo and members of the Met Chorus enjoying an evening at the Metropolitan Opera Club, followed by a performance of Nabucco.

 

I am resting. (From the Cistercian abbey of La Clarté-Dieu, Tours in the Cloisters, New York)

 

Leonard Bernstein’s 'Somewhere' from West Side Story sung by Sasha Cooke

The Houthi-uncouthis have been misbehavin' - there's no substitute for starboard-side .50cal for multicultural understanding. U.S. Central Command #FAFO #Shitites #alfredthayermahan #