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Is today’s Music Choice programmer being wicked funny?
Music Choice is the (TV) channel on which I listen to serious music. (Not always serious; sometimes silly, sometimes no better than background, but always entertaining.) Music Choice broadcasts 24 hours every day without ads or explanatory voices. I have … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, The Facts of Life
Tagged "Phantom of the Opera", Andrew Lloyd Webber, Arthur Sullivan, Music Choice, Puccini, Ralph Vaughan Williams, TS Eliot
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The effect of masks on a serious music concert
Yesterday afternoon, for the first time in more than a year and half, I went to Lincoln Center for a chamber music concert at Alice Tully Hall. Outside the hall, there was a short line where friendly Lincoln Center people … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, The Facts of Life
Tagged Alice Tully Hall, Brahms, Calidore String Quartet, chamber music, Lincoln Center, masks, Nicky Swett, pandemic masks, Puccini, Shostakovich, Webern
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