Archive for October 25th, 2004
Monday, October 25th, 2004
A potpourri of updates
The Tafelmusik concert was lovely. They’re a really great bunch of musicians, and played some nice music. The last thing they played was a long Telemann work, and it wasn’t to my taste. But everything else was pure period-instrument gold. The cat has been remarkably good-natured about the whole stabbed-with-needles experience. I pet it, I […]
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
Bigger than Opera
But never mind about the Opera, the really big news on Thursday night was the display in the lobby of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, explaining their massive renovation plans. Good. The QE is a big nasty barn, somewhat pretty to look at from the outside, but ridden with hordes of distant or off-angle seats, and […]
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
A Night at the Opera
The opera du jour at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre was Der Rosenkavalier, a nice, amusing 270-minute comic opera in German. Richard Strauss, written in 1911, but set (with anachronisms) in 18th century Vienna. The Lovely One wanted to go, and a 2-fer coupon got us there. Because of the terms of the coupon, we had […]
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
Supafamous: Trying to make me look stupid
So Eric is going on vacation and recommended you check this out. Just as I went on one of my longest non-posting spells in months. The reason for the lack of blogging was lots of real, and quite amusing, real life. So if you can wait it out for a few hours, I promise good […]