Opera by Walter Braunfels “The Birds” from Aristophanes. Being staged in 2009 in LA Opera’s Recovered Voices program.
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- Spring Classes on Opera, Ballet, Music Theater and the Symphony
- Intro to Music Literacy - This Saturday
- A Final Reckoning: Viktor Ullmann's Last Piece
- Chicago Classical Music Classes January 2010
- The Rolls-Royce Treatment
- Latest "Someone Else Composed It" Story: Beethoven & “Für Elise.”
- Tribute to the Late Michael Steinberg, Sunday October 4
- Met “Tosca” Booed: Luc Bondy vs. Franco Zeffirelli
- A Belated "Leb Wohl" to Hildegard Behrens
- Mozart Class, Mahler Class - Starting in September
- Is Tchaikovsky an 18th Century Composer?
- Get to know Tchaikovsky Online
- Summer Classes
- Opera Plots in 140 Characters
- Why I Picked Nicolai Gedda
- My Ring Cycle Dream Cast
- YouTube Symphony Mashup
- Good Friday, April 10, 1868
- When Should Orchestral Musicians Take Pay Cuts?
- Prokofiev, Bartok Interviews
- New Production Boo-ed at Met; Links on Audience Etiquette
- Copenhagen's "Ring": Why "Eurotrash" Isn't the Whole Story
- Meet the YouTube Symphony
- Finally Hear Hindemith's "The Long Christmas Dinner"
- ArkivMusic Creates PRINT Classical Music Magazine
- New LA Ring Cycle & a Boito/Scotto Birthday
- Spring, Summer Classes Open for Registration
- Met Announces 2009-2010 Schedule
- John Cage "As Slow As Possible" - 7th Note Reached
- Sunlight on the Marble, Or Viva Martinů!
- How to Write Irrelevant Criticism, Or Another Look at Bartok's Second Piano Concerto
- The First Two Bartok Piano Concertos
- Now, How About Your Favorite Mendelssohn Piece?
- What's Your Favorite Schubert Piece?
- Musical Anniversary: A Florentine Tragedy
- Obama Inauguration Music & Symbolism, Part 2
- Obama Inauguration Music and Symbolism, Part 1
- Recommended Books and Recordings for Winter Classes
- Syllabi for Winter Classes
- My Desert Island Musical Passages
- Celebrating Beethoven's "Greatest Concert Ever"
- Why "The Little Drummer Boy" Is So Annoying
- YouTube Symphony: The Latest Thing to Do About Classical Music
- Boston Symphony Offers Digital Music
- Registration for Winter Courses
- John Adams Interview In Salon - Video
- Met Player - Enjoy Archival Performances Online
- Composition: John Hodgman Offers A Non-Musical Example
- Bach's Financial Crisis Soundtrack
- News Flash: Great Music is Hard to Write
- Blogs Are Abuzz for Anna Magdalena Bach - Did She Compose the Cello Suites?
- Materials Posted for American Masters Course
- Syllabus posted for Rachmaninov and Prokofiev Course
- Twenty Comments on Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas, Part 2
- Twenty Comments on Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas, Part 1
- Is Rachmaninov a Waste of Time?
- Friday Links: Let the Conductors Do the Talking
- Rare Opportunity to Hear Ullmann & Zemlinsky Operas
- This Summer's Debate: Boring New Music
- Classical Music Beach Reading
- "Mozart's" First Four Piano Concerti: Why the Heck Not?
- Albert Roussel and the Temple of Doom-Oops! I Mean Roussel's "Padmavati"-Is a Beautiful and Savage Dream
- Beethoven's "Missa"-Perched Between the Baroque and the Romantic Neo-Baroque
- Conservatory Whippersnappers Shouldn't Be Allowed To Use Percussion
- Ten More Arrows and Maxims
- A Follow-up to Summer Classes Post
- Summer Classes-Haydn, Mozart, and French and Spanish Masters
- Steinway Buys ArkivMusic
- In Praise of ALDaily.com
- Art of the Fugue is iTunes Classical Chart-topper
- Wolfgang Wagner Decides Not to Decide
- Muti Is New CSO Director
- It's A Holde-Quiz! Time To Earn Your Mortarboard!
- The National and the Confessional in Smetana and Dvorak
- Carelessness? Classical "Orthodoxy"? Manufactured Coherence? -Some Thoughts on Dvorak's D Minor Quartet
- Sanskrit or English? Oddly, It Doesn't Much Matter-A Postscript to My Satyagraha Post
- Satyagraha-Pro and Contra
- Greatest Tone Poem? Don't Forget to Consider Smetana's "From Bohemia's Woods and Valleys"
- Smetana and Deafness
- Two More Worthy Works of Smetana and Dvorak
- Dvorak's Opera "Wanda" (Vanda) on WFMT Tuesday April 8
- Smetana: Date Revisions and Slight change for Wk. 1
- Happy YouTube Birthday, Rachmaninoff
- Michael Tilson Thomas - "Keeping Score" Web Site
- A Note on Smetana's Macbeth
- A Splendid CD
- Upcoming Graham School Classes: Some Suggested Preparation
- A Dream Tristan I Never Dreamed Of, But Should Have
- Most Transformative Classical Compositions Ever?
- Do We Know Johann Sebastian Bach?
- Backstage at the Opera
- Has Beethoven Gotten Boring? Is Mikhail Pletnev the Answer?
- A Tale of Dvorak in Two Cities
- Belatedly, Video & Reviews for Conlon's Latest "Recovered Voices" Effort
- Registration Open for Spring 2008 Classes
- Rooting for Prokofiev at the Oscars
- Modern Mashup
- Top 12 List: Classical Music for Valentines Day - Without Cheating!
- "Courage has grown so tired, and longing so great."
- "Buzzards Gotta Eat, Same as Worms"-Some Listening Suggestions for Carneval Season
- Classical Reality TV: Could It Happen Here?
- What's So Degenerate About Korngold?
- Renee Fleming Sings Korngold
- Preparation for Tuesday Italian Opera Class
- Entartete Musik Reading List
- Readings and Preparations for February's One-Day Seminar in Musical Literacy
- Hope You Didn't Miss This
- Guest Blogger "Charley in the Box" Unveils the "Island of Misfit Scores"
- Preparation for My Winter Thursday Course
- This At Least Was Obvious, Wasn't It?
- A Day With Bach and Bratwurst at Career Builder, and Cats That Glow in the Dark
- Dove Sono?
- Nietzsche vs. Flaubert; Or, What to Listen to While Walking
- We Don't Have to Agree, But, "If It Doesn't Fit, You Must Acquit"-A Postscript to "Reporters, Boosters, and Critics"
- Here Are Some More
- The Limitations of Nomenclature: Introductions by Beethoven and Brahms
- Beginner's Luck?
- Boosters, Reporters, and Critics
- A Brief Postscript to "Evasions...Definitions" And Some New Maxims and Arrows
- Evasions May Be Maddening, But Definitions May Be Limiting
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