And you know who you are. Yes, we’re the folks whose ears perk up when someone says, “Have you heard about this elephant…?” Since I had my time in Kenya – and got to know the elephants there pretty well – I’ve enjoyed writing about my experiences and sharing photos and commentary from time to …
The New York Summer Winds Down with a Special Happy Memory
Caramoor’s Italian Pavilion, overlooking the Butterfly Garden Yes, the Metropolitan Opera and the unions seem to have settled the labor dispute, and we’ve been told that we’ll have opera in New York again this autumn. And there’s the usual array (the only word for it) of up-coming non-operatic events: the New York City Ballet, …
Dateline Vancouver: British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology
Thursday was our day to visit the splendid Museum of Anthropology and we had ourselves a wonderful visit. As anyone who has been to Vancouver knows, this is one of North America’s most beautiful cities, and we are definitely enjoying the harbor area (where our hotel is located) and watching the great cruise ships come …
Opera: New York’s Opera Season Ends (I)
Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center We New Yorkers are fortunate to have opera year-round, as some of the smaller opera companies – upon which we are going to depend more and more – perform during the June-September months. For the most part, though, we tend to attach our opera “season” to the dates of our …
Opera: New York’s Opera Season Ends (II)
Back to the Met: I’ll let Mr. Tommasini describe the singing (splendid – no disagreement there!). I’ll share my thoughts about several wonderful highlights, including Nico Muhly’s “Two Boys,” a fresh and very modern spooky story set to a lovely score. Muhly writes in a wide-variety of “styles” and I’m especially taken with his choral …
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