Monthly Archives: April 2001

Passionate and Preposterous

You could write a history of musical consumerism around the varied positions that Bach‘s St. Matthew Passion has held on the scene in the quarter-millennium of its existence. You start with the century of neglect, then the rediscovery and reconstruction … Continue reading

Posted in A Little Night Music | Comments Off on Passionate and Preposterous

LOTFI

Half a century ago almost to the day, a 21-year-old  dollar-a-gig super in an Otello in Los Angeles’ cavernous Shrine Auditorium was so bitten by the operatic bug that he chucked his pre-medical studies forthwith. Fifty years later, on the … Continue reading

Posted in Opera News | Comments Off on LOTFI

The Generation Gap

Dirty old man gets hots for sweet young thing, ends up with egg on face. A week that began with Der Rosenkavalier in Costa Mesa and moved on to Don Pasquale at the Music Center bore reminders of how much … Continue reading

Posted in A Little Night Music | Comments Off on The Generation Gap

Scores To Settle

Sometimes you have to ask yourself: Does the world deserve me, or vice versa? ”My opinion is correct; therefore, your opinion must be wrong“; so — in so many words — writes a self-appointed protector of Stravinsky on last week‘s … Continue reading

Posted in A Little Night Music | Comments Off on Scores To Settle