Classical Music
It’s December and the Depressed Disney Dad at Christmas when his ex has the kids is rousing himself to make his annual rounds of self-loathing. The Depressed Disney Dad is the Jungian shadow of the ...
The best concert I’ve been to in a while happened on Friday, November 18 at The California Center for the Arts Escondido. Rafael Payare proved, yet again, that the San Diego Symphony is a force ...
The San Diego Symphony concert on Friday, November 11, at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, featured a boat horn. For whatever reason, a boat was crisscrossing the harbor blowing its horn at very regular ...
If I were to recall the soundtrack for Thanksgiving from my childhood, it would have to be The Dallas Cowboys and The Detroit Lions. These two teams always play on Thanksgiving and that’s what I ...
October is coming to an end and it has been a solid month for classical music in San Diego. November is looking even better. There are a few concerts in November that shouldn’t be missed ...
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 5 by Johannes Brams brought the October 2022 Mainly Mozart Festival to a close with a flourish. The festival started on Wednesday, October 12, with an explanation of the new venue in ...
When Rafael Payare conducts the San Diego Symphony it’s not a concert, it’s an event. Such was the case on Saturday, October 8, at The California Center for the Arts Escondido. The first virtues of ...
The best news I’ve heard in months, nay, perhaps years, is coming to fruition on October 12, 14, and 15. The Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra is returning to the great indoors for the first time ...
This is the final chapter of our tour of all 32 NFL teams and the music that fits each team the best. We start with the NFC East and The New York Giants. The Giants ...
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 Tampa Bay Buccaneers were pirates ...
Giving the teams of the NFC North and AFC South their classical music patronus.
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 the month of September. This ...
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. I was once willing to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...