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Several New York minutes in a New York week

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Few sights warm the heart of a native Midwesterner on a solitary walk far from home more than that of a bunch of kids playing Little League baseball. One dad hitting grounders to the infield, a smaller group off in left field playing pepper, a couple other grown-ups on hand to hit pop flies and [...]

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Save us from our friends

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Chicagoans take a lot of crap for their (our, mine) inferiority complex, and feeling the need to trumpet our accomplishments and greatness to the world, which so often doesn’t seem to notice. But that sense of inferiority is absolutely bludgeoned by the crowd that insists that classical music is dying. Or that orchestral music is [...]

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Aufersteh’n

Thursday, November 20, 2008

I sang in the choir for a performance of Mahler’s Second Symphony in grad school (second bass), drove to Chicago from Bloomington to hear Pierre Boulez conduct it with the Chicago Symphony, and heard it for the first time performed by the Muncie Symphony Orchestra. And who could forget the CSO’s performance in 2006 with [...]

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