Group 2011 May

Classical Music archive for May, 2011

Manipulative Whore

Springtime and first loves are nice, but what about Delilah? Delilah, what a manipulative,nagging, opportunistic, whore. However, Samson was a ...

Bert Turetzky, Live at Dizzy's

Del Mar resident and retired UCSD music professor Bert Turetzky schedules a rare San Diego performance on Thursday, May 26, ...

Vision of Life

Music as life and death is rare. However, I assume there are a few songs about death. I just Googled ...

Carmen Reborn

On Saturday night, Carmen opened and was panned by every critic who saw it. The critics were justified. Carmen was ...

The Nine

In case anyone wants to know more about The Nine Worthies, here's a little information. The Nine are split into ...

Whatever, Dude

Lohengrin arrives in the middle of the first act of Wagner's musical drama. Wagner claimed that he didn't write operas, ...

What to Listen to

A friend of mine took me up on discussing the merits of Phantom. As we exchanged thinly veiled insults, I ...

Imperial March

I will admit I went to see the movie Thor in IMAX 3D. I'll also admit that I liked it. ...

Royals and Rutter

I didn't hear or see anything of The Royal Wedding but I heard John Rutter wrote a new piece of ...