A note to anyone who may have navigated this way after hearing Radio Open Source: the entry that follows this and preceeds the one I understand they're going to read on air is a return to fluffy, occasionally foul-mouthed opera-blogging of variable quality* after the somber interlude of the loss of LHL. I'm afraid the rest of the blog is rather more like this than my little piece on Lieberson. I don't want anyone to stumble upon this and leave aghast, so I thought I'd give a heads up.
*Seriously. The Puritani review is one of my least favorites, for example. Accident of timing. For a representative sampling of what this blog is about most of the time, caveat lector, check out:
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Thanks for stopping by.
MD'
ETA: Cutting room floor for me, it seems.
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4 comments:
MD,
I avoided the interview for just this reason. Well, that...and the fact that when it comes to the unscripted/non-composed, I'm a tongue-tied, raving lunatic and should never be given the chance to foist my vapidness on the unsuspecting public. Blogging was a bad enough idea in the first place.
When shall we listen for your duclet baritone across the air waves?
GP
GP,
I guess I was flattered to be asked!
And then in fact what happened was I was a non-composed, tongue-tied, raving lunatic and we all thought it would be nicer if they just read my LHL homage (femage?) so I think that's what's going to happen.
So it's going to be someone else's dulcet baritone, and it's tonight at 7 if you're streaming from Boston or 8 I think if you're streaming from NYC. The show isn't run on Chicago public radio--I actually checked. I think I'm just going to download it tomorrow, most likely. It would make me faintly nervous to listen to it live, for no good reason.
MD'
What I love about your blog is the fact that you can slice and dice an opera performance so entertainingly AND write serious criticism and/or appreciations. I keep coming back even though I'm not an opera fanatic because you are so damn' entertaining! Don't let the mere possibility of grinches give you shpilkes -- keep on keepin' on, man.
Piet, I'm glad you've enjoyed it. Kind of you to say so!
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