The Opera San Jose production of Carmen was so wonderful, that I decided to see it a second time. The first time I attended a matinee,...

Since March 2020, I've been to very few concerts of live music. There is nothing like sitting in an audience and knowing that the...

One of the things that characterized 2020 was the cancellation of musical performances and events. At first, most of us thought...

In November 2019, I was a panelist at King’s College London, for an event about the conductor Constantin Silvestri. I showed a few...

We spent Christmas Eve at Treehouse Tavern listening to music and eating an assortment of hors d’oeuvres. Treehouse Tavern is a 180...

Last year, a friend suggested that I join ASMAC, the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers. I was hesitant. Although I...

I can’t remember the last time that I attended a choral concert. All of the chorus works I’ve heard in recent years have been part of an...

I've taken 1,693,819 steps since March 16. That's an average of more then 12,000 steps per day, every day, seven -->

Dmitri Shostakovich’s first opera, The Nose, is a satirical tale of a St. Petersburg official who wakes up without a nose—just a -->

I purchased a ticket to watch the Bayreuth (Germany) production of Tannhäuser, but the streaming link never arrived. Glen and I were -->

These are the days of reverse travel. I had planned to be in Germany this month for the Bayreuth Festival. Instead, the -->