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Current: Independence Day – What Were We Celebrating? What’s Coming Next?

July 5, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Like many Americans, we New Yorkers have a grand fireworks tradition for closing out our Independence Day celebrations. Fireworks burst all over America, and here in New York, crowds love to gather along the East River (sometimes the Hudson) for the great spectacle. Others of us gather at parties to watch the fireworks, or we, too, …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Personal History Tagged With: Aeneid, Berlioz (Hector), Biden (Joe), Burns (Ken), Hutchinson (Cassidy), January 6 Insurrection, Kyiv, Les Troyans (opera), Mass Shootings, Meadows (Mark), Russia-Ukraine War, Vindman (Alexander), Vindman (Yevgeny), Virgil

Current: The Russia-Ukraine War – What Do Young People Think?

April 17, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

It’s probably never easy to figure out how to react to what we hear and learn in wartime, in any war. The Russia-Ukraine war is no exception. Many of us – along with many other citizens throughout the world – found some level of comfort with what we thought were the effects of our famous …

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Filed Under: Current Events, History, Personal History Tagged With: Cold War, Conversation, Opinion (Young People), Russia, Russia-Ukraine War, Soviet Union

Current: Russia-Ukraine War – A Change in Guy’s Posts

March 21, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

These posts recently moved – we might say – to a different point of view from the usual topics I write about here. Those will continue, of course (there are still two more posts to be published about my beloved Vienna, for example). But now I find myself moving into what we used to refer to as …

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Filed Under: Current Events, History, Personal History Tagged With: Blogs (personal), Russia-Ukraine War, Sharing Guy's Journey (blog), writers and writing

Opera Diary: A Concert for Ukraine at The Metropolitan Opera

March 17, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

In The Metropolitan Opera Supports the People of Ukraine, my March 4 post, I found it very gratifying to share with readers my pride in the work of the Metropolitan Opera Association. Many of you agreed with me, and your responses (both to me and at LinkedIn, where I also share these posts) made that clear. …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Music, Personal History Tagged With: A Concert for Ukraine, Barber (Samuel), Barton (Jamie), Beczała (Piotr), Beethoven Fifth Symphony, Buialskyi (Vladyslav), Davidsen (Lise), Gelb (Peter), Green (Ryan Speedo), Kyslytsya (Sergly), Metropolitan Opera Association, Nézet-Séguin (Yannick), Russia-Ukraine War, Silvestrov (Valentin), Strauss (Richard), van den Heever (Elza), Verdi (Guiseppe)

Opera Diary: The Metropolitan Opera Supports The People of Ukraine

March 4, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

I have been a “regular” of the Metropolitan Opera for many years, and I’m not shy about saying that the company and its many outstanding performances are frequent subjects in these posts. So I’m sure none of my regular readers will be surprised when I say that I’ve never been prouder of my relationship with …

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Filed Under: Music, Personal History Tagged With: Don Carlos (opera), Gelb (Peter), Metropolitan Opera Association, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Nézet-Séguin (Yannick), Opera, Russia-Ukraine War, Ukraine, Ukrainian National Anthem, Verdi (Giuseppe)

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