Luck a bigger player in life than we like to admit

 
I have been thinking a lot about luck in the past few weeks, and this is something you do when you get older and you start to look at the things you’ve done and not done with your life.
People don’t like to admit it, but luck and chance often have much more to do with [...]

Master criminal? Must be a classical fan

 
 

Robin Tunney and Simon Baker in The Mentalist.
My wife Sharon is a fan of police procedural shows, which means she has most of network TV to choose from (J. Edgar Hoover must be smiling somewhere, having innovated with newsreels and so effectively propagandized for the good guys in the Big G).
One of the shows she [...]

Writing for the theater not for every composer

 
I’ve been rather busy with other projects lately, such as this piece for the Miami Herald, and these two for ArtsPaper.  It distresses me to miss so many days on this blog, but if I can get a greater degree of organization implemented, I should be able to post more often.
A third piece of recent [...]

Soon, audiences will want fresher opera repertory

Svetla Vassileva as Joan of Arc in Giovanna d’Arco.
May 5, 2009
One more word about opera repertory: There seems to be a lot of different information about the kinds of operas being presented these days at American opera companies.
From my perspective, while the news as expressed in this 2007 piece from The American is rather positive, [...]