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Buccaneers, Saints, Steelers, and Ravens get their classical music pairing

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Berlioz for the Packers, Sibelius for the Vikings, and Elgar for the Bears

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Verdi for the Rams, Wagner for the 49ers, Copland for Patriots and Buffalo BIlls

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LA Opera updates Lammermoor

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Buccaneers, Saints, Steelers, and Ravens get their classical music pairing

As we continue to pair NFL teams with classical music indicative of their style, location, or history, we arrive at the NFC South and the AFC North. For decades, the ...

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Berlioz for the Packers, Sibelius for the Vikings, and Elgar for the Bears

Giving the teams of the NFC North and AFC South their classical music patronus.

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Verdi for the Rams, Wagner for the 49ers, Copland for Patriots and Buffalo BIlls

With the NFL season upon us, I’ve decided to match each of the 32 teams with their own classical music soundtrack. We will look at eight teams each week for ...

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LA Opera updates Lammermoor

As I stare down the barrel of yet another season of opera, for which I will need to travel, I can’t help but feel as though I’ve become less tolerant. ...

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October where art thou?

As I continue to slog my way through the dog days of summer, I lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. The hills are October and the help is the ...

August 26, 2022

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The downward slope of San Diego's choral music

I’ve come to the conclusion that August and September are, by far, my least favorite months of the year. There are several reasons, not least among them is the disgusting weather, pre-season football, and summer ...

August 19, 2022

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August 12, 2022

Ring Cycle sans Ring

I paid 9.9 euros to watch the live stream of Götterdämmerung from this year's Bayreuth Festival. It was atrocious. I felt guilty for helping finance this production with my window’s mite. Austrian director Valentin Schwarz ...

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August 5, 2022

Movie Music on the Decline

The 90th birthday of John Williams will be celebrated by the San Diego Symphony on Saturday, August 13. In a previous article, I mentioned the lack of well-known composers after World War II. The one ...

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July 29, 2022

The best "Liebestods" from the golden age of Wagner

I’m not sure how the conversation started, but an opera friend of mine asked if I had ever heard soprano Leontyne Price's rendition of “The Liebestod” or “Love-Death” from Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. I ...

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July 22, 2022

Food security at Rady Shell holds back fans

There are several factors in a successful concert experience. There’s the music being performed, the performance of said music, whether or not one attends the concert alone or with a companion, whether or not said ...

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July 13, 2022

The right reasons for canceling the 1812 Overture

The San Diego Symphony has canceled Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture for the final concert of their summer season. They are replacing it with Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture. Here is the complete statement from The Symphony: “While ...

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July 8, 2022

Some post-1945 music to pay attention to

“It sounded like a bunch of random sounds.” This was the answer my 18-year-old daughter gave when I asked her what she thought of the new piece of music performed by the San Diego Symphony ...

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Rady summer series kicks off with Berlioz, Moya, Mussorgsky

The Rady Shell 2022 Summer Season kicked off on Friday, June 24, with a concert by the San Diego Symphony conducted by music director Rafael Payare. Though the day was warm, the evening became chilly. ...

July 1, 2022

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Finding cohesive The Wasps not easy

The 2022 San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival concluded with concerts on Friday, June 17, and Saturday, June 18. They were, as always, excellent. An unlooked-for treat came in the form of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s The ...

June 24, 2022

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June 17, 2022

“That was the best Beethoven Four I’ve heard since well—yeah.”

Now we come to the easiest and most difficult articles I write each year, the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra articles. These are easy because the orchestra is nigh unto flawless. These are difficult because I ...

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June 10, 2022

Stranger Things takes author down rabbit hole – to Paisiello

I’ve been watching the fourth and final season of Stranger Things with my kids. This Netflix Original show had a fantastic first season, a solid second season, and a terrible third season. The third season ...

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Buccaneers, Saints, Steelers, and Ravens get their classical music pairing

Berlioz for the Packers, Sibelius for the Vikings, and Elgar for the Bears

Verdi for the Rams, Wagner for the 49ers, Copland for Patriots and Buffalo BIlls

LA Opera updates Lammermoor

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