Despite the Cyberattack at The Metropolitan Opera, There’s Even More to Think about with The Hours A week-end conversation with friends about last week’s post brought up a terrific idea. Let’s go with it. The topic had to do with some of my thoughts about Kevin Puts’s and Greg Pierce’s new opera, The Hours (just …
Opera: A New American Classic from The Metropolitan Opera
The Hours: A New Spin on Just How Good American Opera Can Be For those of us who go often to the opera, we long ago learned that an evening at the Met brings much joy in the pure art of singing. Indeed, nowadays, here at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, a serious effort is being …
Vancouver: A Very Different Work of Public Art
A Somewhat Enigmatic Work We found something completely different in one of our walkabouts in Vancouver. When our friend Kevin Manion was visiting us from Seattle and we were heading toward the harbor, we came across another work of art, this one unlike anything we had ever experienced before (assuming we consider a church something …
Vancouver: Christ Church Cathedral
Perhaps a New Way of Thinking about Organized Religion While I’m not much of a religious fellow, one of my favorite things is just to go and sit in churches. I don’t know why, and there’s no sense in trying to “dig too deeply” (perhaps it’s all that church music I sang in choirs over …
Vancouver: A Very Welcoming City
A New Favorite Hotel and Perhaps a New Favorite City When we made our plans for visiting this lovely city (which we had visited in 2014 for a professional conference), we chose the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, falling in with the Fairmont chain just as we had done for Toronto and Victoria. And as I say, …
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