Skelpin fiddler Patric Petrie dropping Pocket Venus May 31 @Balboa Park
Jay Allen Sanford 9:45 p.m., May 19
Immortal Beauty
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Church Gig
The topic of The Royal Wedding briefly surfaced last night at church choir. First to clarify the idea of church ...
Sushumna Singing
The aforementioned Josh Vincent and I set a Daddy date for the beach today. I took my two kids aged ...
String Yoga
After Faust closed on Sunday, I went over to have a chicken quesadilla at Downtown Johnny Brown's while Josh Vincent ...
Review
I bumped into Greer Grimsley at 7-11 downtown yesterday. Greer is singing Mephistopheles in SDO's production of Faust. I asked ...
Bach Suites
Just for fun, I listened to some of Bach's cello suites today and I must admit they're better than kale. ...
One Hit Operas
A while back, I posted about "One Hit Wonders" and followed it up with "One Hit Wagner". Dmopbuff made a ...
Adoramus
I've just noticed there isn't much classical music I associate with Easter. There are a few pieces for Good Friday. ...
Boring
The funny thing about this topic of classical music being boring is that I tend to find pop music boring. ...
There's a Difference
I've been thinking about trying to understand how the non-classical music patron hears classical music. I say I've been thinking ...
Just Joking
It has come to my attention that I recently threw a musical term out there that should have been defined. ...
I Fell Off my Magic Cloud
Yesterday, I was driving along the 163 toward downtown to get a costume fitting for Carmen. My seven-year-old daughter was ...
Ice Ice Baby
So what of this Sibelius and his 1st Symphony sounding like Tchaikovsky's 7th? When Sibelius premiered his 1st Symphony in ...
Athenaeum
I heard that Lulu Lemon has men's apparel. As I wasn't feeling too confident about walking into a store with ...
Washes the Dust
Each of us has a soundtrack to our life. There are certain pieces of music that, when we hear them, ...
Organ Symphony
Speaking of the organ. It's been a while since I heard Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3. The second and fourth movements ...
Big Organ
With the onset of some sunshine, I took a run through Balboa Park and there it was, The Spreckels Organ ...
Places to Play and Pray
For the last few weeks, every morning I've had a full chorus of chirpy birds singing to their hearts' content ...
Rosen-cancel-ier
When Der Rosenkavalier opens on April 3rd, it will be interesting to see how the San Diego audience responds. Rosenkavalier ...
Rosenkavalier
As mentioned, Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian conductor who joined the Nazi Party. In the early 1900’s, Georg von ...
More Moonlight
I got a late start to my run the other day. I almost didn’t go but somehow ended up at ...
