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Mozart and the MET Bring Us Real Joy

April 2, 2025 By Guy St. Clair

Le Nozze di Figaro: Much-Needed Relief Right Now Our little gang showed up at The MET on Monday night for the Season Premiere of what has to be the composer’s happiest creation, and it all came through. This splendid production, which opened the 2014-2015 season at the opera house, proved once again to be an …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Music, Personal History Tagged With: Aucoin (Matthew), Le Nozze di Figaro (opera), MET, Metropolitan Opera Association

Belle da Costa Greene at The Morgan

March 4, 2025 By Guy St. Clair

This essay, offered as a blog post for my friends and regular readers, is written as my own tribute to Belle da Costa Greene and, as such, to the Morgan Library and Museum. Such a tribute is highly appropriate at this time in New York, as we are moving into the closing months of one …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Current Events, History, Knowledge Services, Personal History Tagged With: Greene (Belle da Costa), Inglés (Jorge), knowledge management, Knowledge Services, Librarianship, Library and Information Science, McKim Mead & White (architects), Mead, Morgan (J.P.), Morgan (Jack), Morgan Library and Museum, Opera (NYC-1912), Schneider (Otto), Spanish Forger, Voelkle (William M.), Wieck (Roger S.)

Berlin: Another “City of Music”?

February 10, 2025 By Guy St. Clair

My enthusiasm for musical performances seems to take on some sort of overwhelming urgency when I travel. As a result, I’ve been known to use the “city of music” description as I move about, especially in Europe. I’ve used the phrase when I write of Vienna (which really does call itself such in the city’s …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Journal, Music, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Barocke Weilhnacht, Berlin, Berlin (Christmas 2024), Die Meistersinger von Nüremberg, Il viaggio a Reims (opera), Lucia de Lammermoor (opera), Maltman (Christopher), Music (Baroque), RIAS Kammerchor Berlin

January 20, 2025: Honoring Dr. King

January 20, 2025 By Guy St. Clair

My calendar tells me that today is Martin Luther King Day. This federal holiday honors the civil rights leader and is also recognized as a national day of service, encouraging Americans to volunteer in their communities. And as we seek to speak with our friends, our children, our grandchildren, and, yes, for some of us, …

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Filed Under: Current Events, History, Journal Tagged With: Civil Rights Movement, King (Martin Luther Jr.), Martin Luther King Day, Richardson (Heather Cox)

A Remarkable Opera Experience

December 10, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

The MET’s Die Frau ohne Schatten Although I’m writing from Berlin (after a fast journey from New York), I’m still basking in the glow of another remarkable performance at the Metropolitan Opera. And—not surprising anyone who knows me—I’m happy to share a few thoughts and my enthusiasm here. At last Wednesday’s performance of Die Frau …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Journal, Music, Personal History Tagged With: Die Frau ohne Schatten (opera), Mann (William), Metropolitan Opera Association, Porter (Andrew), Strauss (Richard), von Hofmannsthal (Hugo), Woolfe (Zachery)

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Recent Posts

  • Mozart and the MET Bring Us Real Joy April 2, 2025
  • Belle da Costa Greene at The Morgan March 4, 2025
  • Berlin: Another “City of Music”? February 10, 2025
  • January 20, 2025: Honoring Dr. King January 20, 2025
  • A Remarkable Opera Experience December 10, 2024
  • Two Surprises at the Kröller-Müller Museum November 19, 2024
  • Elephants Galore September 28, 2024
  • Guy’s Elephants August 12, 2024
  • Carroll Beckwith’s Portrait of William Walton July 31, 2024
  • Digital Postcard: Memorial Day Greetings from Germany May 27, 2024
  • Digital Postcard: Hello from Madrid (but Sent from Amsterdam) May 17, 2024
  • Proust: A Family Reading Milestone April 18, 2024
  • Vienna: Collected Posts April 16, 2024
  • A Conductor For Our Time: Klaus Mäkelä April 1, 2024
  • SLA at 115: Welcoming Our Future April 1, 2024
  • The Frick’s Angel February 25, 2024
  • “Turandot” Returns Triumphantly to the Met February 25, 2024
  • The Mérode Altarpiece of the Annunciation January 1, 2024
  • Ghent Altarpiece: The Annunciation December 24, 2023
  • A “Tannhäuser” to Remember December 2, 2023

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