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Latest blog posts from Iron Tongue of Midnight

Explorations of Music
Lazy posting: a chunk of information from email sent by San Francisco Performances. But try to catch some of these broadcasts, because the Alexander series is classical programming at its best and most imaginative.divbr //divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

PEOPLE.
Some of you know that I'm a technical writer. I'm on the mailing list of my local chapter of the Society for Technical Communication - never mind that I don't span style="font-style: italic;"belong/span to the STC these days, have quit a few years back after being driven mad by extremely... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Oh, C'mon
The span style="font-style: italic;"really obscene/span moment in span style="font-style: italic;"Salome/span is when she's making love to the decapitated head of John the Baptist, not the Dance of the Seven Veils, even when a... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Dear Publicists:
A couple of weeks back, I put up a posting that corrected a previous, erroneous posting about a fine Bay Area organization. Within the last hour, someone who will go nameless wrote a comment to that posting, reading as follows:br /p/pblockquoteHave you ever heard of classical [instrument deleted]... Read more...
Published 5 days ago

Feelings of Impending Doom
I did not expect to ever see headlines like a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/business/30cong.html?hp"Trying to Avoid Economic Calamity, Lawmakers Grope for Resolution/a. Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Gosh.
a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/business/27sec.html?hp"S.E.C Concedes Oversight Flaws Fueled Collapse/a. Who woulda thunk it? Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Paul Newman
Rest in peace, Paul. You were one of the greats on screen and off. Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Program
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"                          span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"Music Club Concert/span/spandivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new'; text-decoration: underline;"br... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Free Oakland-East Bay Symphony Concert, Sunday, Sept. 28
Up in Joaquin Miller Park, in the Oakland Hills, there's an amphitheater that is used for a variety of purposes. This Sunday, September 18, there will be a free concert that includes the Oakland East Bay Symphony, led by its music director, Michael Morgan. divbr //divdivThe program runs from... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

New Music and Net Neutrality
Technology makes interesting bedfellows, and the headline above twists my brain just a bit. But Sidney Chen, artistic administrator of the a href="http://www.kronosquartet.org/"Kronos Quartet/a, a href="http://www.voltisf.org/"singer/a, and a href="http://www.thestandingroom.com/"blogger/a, has... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Whoa, and Congratulations!
Not only is Alex Ross about to celebrate the paperback publication of span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"The Rest is Noise/span, apparently he has recently gotten a call from the a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/arts/23fell.html?hp"MacArthur Foundation/a!!... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

The Trojan Wars
Over the last decade, I've toyed off and on with the idea of a themed opera season. I've seen some half-hearted attempts at this; for example, San Francisco Opera usually finds some kind of overarching tag line for its summer season. Those have seemed strained to me, though I suppose the 1998... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago