Today's Classical Music News - October 17th, 2005
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2005-10-17
City Opera's fall season (Article, Alex Ross - The New Yorker)
Fiery vocalist captures magic of Eternal City (Review, John von Rhein -
Chicago Tribune)
Renaissance Chamber Orchestra a no-show for Fort Lauderdale concert
(News, Lawrence A. Johnson - Sun Sentinel)
Montreal symphony settles (News, Edmonton Sun)
An orchestra in search of an opera (Article, Michael Tumelty - The
Herald)
Montreal Symphony strike nears end (News, Calgary Herald)
Despite gains, women conductors aren't exactly crowding the podium
(Article, Valerie Scher - San Diego Union-Tribune)
Soprano Taking Chances as a Feisty Wood Nymph (Review, Anthony
Tommasini - New York Times)
In the Land of Verdi, Where Egyptians Are Italian (Review, Bernard
Holland - New York Times)
Llewellyn moves on but not out (Upcoming Events, Richard Dyer - Boston
Globe)
Prestigious award for £70m Sage (News, BBC )
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Vaneyes
mikev...@scena.org wrote:
> Here are today's classical music news headlines. Links to these
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> Montreal symphony settles (News, Edmonton Sun)
Not too surprising, since Nagano is set to begin his OSM season October
23 (Prokofiev, Ravel). October 26/27, Bruckner 9.
Sidenote: Also not too surprising that the CBC settled as "Hockey Night
in Canada" approached.
Regards
Matthew B. Tepper
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> Montreal symphony settles (News, Edmonton Sun)
Finally. Kent shoulda been a hockey player.
> Despite gains, women conductors aren't exactly crowding the podium
> (Article, Valerie Scher - San Diego Union-Tribune)
I note no mention of Keri-Lynn Wilson. I guess THAT marriage has soured.
> Soprano Taking Chances as a Feisty Wood Nymph (Review, Anthony
> Tommasini - New York Times)
So in other words this was an unreserved triumph for Fleming, right?
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Vaneyes
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Steven de Mena
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> OT. Sir Richard Branson invites you to a grand opening...
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> http://www.virginmegamagazine.com/default.asp?vms=25&vmseid=2229
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Hmmm.....they are opening a new store at Hollywood and Highland....just
about 3 miles from their Sunset Blvd store. I don't know if that was a wise
decision, unless they have plans to close the Sunset store.
Steve
Matthew B. Tepper
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The funny thing is, I could probably make it there in time if I wanted to.
Matthew B. Tepper
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They haven't bothered to fix the Burbank store to reopen it, so far as I
know. (A portion of the roof collapsed during last Winter's rains, if
anyone is curious.)
Peter T. Daniels
There are three Barnes & Noble stores withing about half a mile of each
other in Manhattan -- Union Square, Chelsea, and the original one in
between (which apparently has no connection with the national chain but
the name and logo).
There are two Towers in Chicago, just about three miles apart.
And, of course, there's a Starbuck's on every other corner in every city
in America.
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Nightingale
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> And, of course, there's a Starbuck's on every other corner in every city
> in America.
Many cities in Canada are the same.
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Steven de Mena
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>> OT. Sir Richard Branson invites you to a grand opening...
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>> http://www.virginmegamagazine.com/default.asp?vms=25&vmseid=2229
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>> Regards
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> The funny thing is, I could probably make it there in time if I wanted to.
It will be a crowded mess, and loud with the live performances. I am pretty
close (near Wilshire/Fairfax) but will go on another day when all the
festivities are over.
Steve
Steven de Mena
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> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
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>> And, of course, there's a Starbuck's on every other corner in every city
>> in America.
>
> Many cities in Canada are the same.
I was in London a couple of years ago and ended up walking a few hours
across the city and counted seven "Starbucks" during that time.
They have supposedly done research and found in some cases opening a 2nd
store across the street from another one (based on traffic flows....they
keep their exact store location process secret) has increased overall sales
in the area, and not decreased sales in the original store.
Steve
Matthew Fields
I've been without one all along. But the mom-and-pop pharmacy down the
street from me first closed its pharmacy desk on the basis that it couldn't
compete with computerized megachain pharmacies, then 5 years later
closed its corner store for good, and the building went under renovation.
Building is gradually re-opening as a quadruplex, and the first two units
to go in is a much-unneeded cigar store and a Caribou Coffee.
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Matthew B. Tepper
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>>> OT. Sir Richard Branson invites you to a grand opening...
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>> The funny thing is, I could probably make it there in time if I wanted
>> to.
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> It will be a crowded mess, and loud with the live performances. I am
> pretty close (near Wilshire/Fairfax) but will go on another day when all
> the festivities are over.
Well, me too; I did say "if." I have found it very disagreeable to try to
visit Amoeba when they have live performances in the store, and I can't
imagine this will be any better (especially on the first day of business).
And given the trend of the other two Virgin Megastores I've visited here, I
don't hold out a whole lot of hope.
Peter T. Daniels
The two in Manhattan -- Times Square and Union Square -- are like that
all the time and have little to attract the classical purchaser; they've
both reduced the departments considerably and taken them out of the
acoustically segregated rooms they were in. And the prices were higher
than Tower (not to mention J&R).
The HMV store on the Upper East Side was a bit better, but it's been
replaced by a Best Buy. (I think there was another HMV somewhere else,
too.)
John W. Kennedy
> The HMV store on the Upper East Side was a bit better, but it's been
> replaced by a Best Buy. (I think there was another HMV somewhere else,
> too.)
Near the Ansonia?
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Peter T. Daniels
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> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > The HMV store on the Upper East Side was a bit better, but it's been
> > replaced by a Best Buy. (I think there was another HMV somewhere else,
> > too.)
>
> Near the Ansonia?
If so, that's not the one I may have visited.
Christopher Culver
> There are two Towers in Chicago, just about three miles apart.
Surely it's more than that. I've walked between the two occasionally
and have been worn out.
The Tower in the loop is right down the street from the CSO building,
so it has a good reputation for classical works. There's plenty in
stock, CSO subscribers get a discount, and you'll occasionally see
Boulez or Aimard shopping there. The Tower several miles north focuses
more on other types of media (there's a larger amount of books and
DVDs) and has a very extensive jazz selection, although even their
modern-classical section is quite good.
Christopher Culver
Peter T. Daniels
The downtown store, formerly Rose Records' HQ, is on Wabash just off
Adams; the Near North store is 2201 N. Clark (or 2301? at Belden) --
almost exactly three miles.
(For non-Chicagoans, there are 8 blocks in a mile and 100 house numbers
in a block. Adams is the 200 South block -- wasn't Orchestra Hall 210 S.
Michigan until they moved the entrace around the corner?)
When I was there this past July, the downtown store's classical
department (now up on the third floor, which used to be jazz and world
music) was pitiful and the staff rude. The main store's classical dept.
had not yet been reduced in area, but it can't compare to the Lincoln
Center store's. And J&R sometimes comes up with stuff Tower doesn't get.