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Monthly Archives: September 2009

De Niese de bees knees

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Danielle de Niese’s new Mozart album is out now, and received a big plug from the New York Times Magazine today, and therefore needs no further boost from me. But, it’s a splendid album of opera and concert arias, and you get to hear her with Bryn Terfel and the authoritative Sir Charles Mackerras and [...]

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Code name

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Names exist, partially, to remove doubt. We put them on things to eliminate what they are not as much as to say what they are. “What is [this]?” “It is [that].” Names also create attachments between the person, or people, who did the naming and the thing that’s been named; if you find a stray [...]

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Free and patriotic music

Friday, September 11, 2009

Nominally part of the Back the Bid program for Chicago 2016, the Chicago Symphony’s offer of three free downloads also makes for a thoughtful 9/11 memorial. From this page, you can download recordings of the CSO playing The Star-Spangled Banner and Stars & Stripes Forever, as well as the Olympic Anthem. The first two are led by [...]

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In praise of stay-at-home Valkyries

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

“The Deeds campaign sent out a fundraising appeal with the thesis as its main focus. The state Democratic Party produced a video, “Bob McDonnell’s Secret Blueprint for Virginia,” setting a news report about the document to driving, apocalyptic classical music.”—Amy Gardner, Rosalind S. Helderman and Anita Kumar, writing about Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell’s graduate-school [...]

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