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Kathleen Battle sings “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” - One of my favorite Christmas recordings is *Kathleen Battle*'s *A Christmas Celebration*.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard at the 92nd Street Y - Pierre-Laurent Aimard in Recital 92nd Street Y November 19, 2025 Published in Sequenza 21 NEW YORK – Pianist Pierre-Laurant Aimard has had a long

Critic’s Notebook: RSO & Poschner - The Harmonists Strike Back - Also published in Die Presse: Poschners Gebet für die Seejungfrau: Das RSO im Musikverein E-S.Tüür, Piano Concerto, Sy.#7, P.Järvi / Frankfurt RSO, NDR Cho...

Ars Minerva's Ercole amante - Sara Couden and Nina Jones in Antonia Bembo’s *Ercole amante* (Photo: Valentina Sadiul) Between *The Monkey King* and Gautier Capuçon's cello recital, I...

Deep Cleaning by the Deep State - Redact, expunge, and repeat.

Đề về 72 hôm sau đánh con gì: Bật mí con đề dễ về nhất - Đề về 72 hôm sau đánh con gì hiệu quả, giúp bạn nâng cao tỷ lệ thắng cược? Để có được câu trả lời chi tiết mời bạn đọc cùng HB88 theo dõi những phân tích b...

Playlist (Regnum meum non est de hoc mundo). - A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Lahti - I am in Lahti, Finland, to give a talk at the Lahti Symphony's Sibelius Festival. I've been wanting to visit since I encountered Osmo Vänskä's revelatory B...

Authentic Korngold to raise the Proms roof - Last Saturday night, I left the Royal Albert Hall after the debut Prom of the Sinfonia of London and started down the slippery slope to South Kensington ...

Liquid Music // An Evening with Pekka Kuusisto and Nico Muhly - Finnish violin star Pekka Kuusisto returns to Liquid Music with prolific composer/pianist Nico Muhly for a rare duo evening of wide-ranging contemporary, c...

Joy to the World - *an argument against happiness* A casual glance at an orchestra in performance usually reveals a group of mostly phlegmatic individuals going about their...

The Generosity of Children - *Berkeley, August 28, 2019— * LANGUAGEHAT TELLS ME that Alexander Gavrilov, in an interview, told a Russian blogger It was at that moment that I grasped t...

Ristretto! - I got back on Sunday evening from four beautiful days in Provence - with the Ristretto Summer Academy, as a spectator only I should add! And here they all ...

Bourland update: July 2019 - Greetings all! As you see here, I have taken a break from blogging for a few years but I am still alive and well and still working hard. Well, truth be tol...

Rewind: A Clearer Picture of ‘A Bigger Splash’ - The 1974 documentary anticipated David Hockney’s success and the rise of reality TV. A new, 4K restoration screens at the Metrograph this week.

Put The Message in the Box - Sean Panikkar and cast of *Satyagraha* Photo: Cory Weaver 2018 The Los Angeles Opera’s presentation of Philip Glass’s *Satyagraha* now onstage through Novem...

Judy Dunaway Interviewed - Here's a lively interview with composer Judy Dunaway. Dunaway is perhaps best-known for her music for her own instrument of virtuosity, the balloon, but he...

Lang Lang Cancels Berlin Phil Concerts in November and April, 2018 - [...]

Daftar Paket Internet Bolt 2015 - Melihat Mendengar | *Paket Internet Bolt 2015* – Semua orang khususnya di Indonesia tentunya sudah tidak gila lagi dengan modem Bolt yang notabenya merupak...

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"We seem to go extremely slow, / it is so hard to wait!" - Today is Thanksgiving Day here in the United States, and I hope it's a fine one for anyone reading. Here's what we'll be offering guests at the door—a br...

Met Opera announces Levine’s departure, long overdue - Music director’s 40-year tenure included many glorious performances and at least a decade of health problems.

Essential Oils for cancer - This is a great article from cancertutor.com (it’s their article below). The capabilities of essential oils will come a s ahuge surprise to many – but we s...

Novel Update - The winds of time blow into 2016. Back in Sept and Oct, worked with an editor and received back an extremely helpful critique and markup on both the novel ...

Ten very kelpy years and counting - …click to listen: …about the music Listen up! Tweet Despite the [ahem, cough] hiatus between 2015 postings, the reigning Queenie of Quelpville has not been...

Hello! - I have pretty much stopped updating Seated Ovation! And that is a shame. So if you're visiting this from Twitter or somewhere else on the Internet, 1) my ...

How I Spent My Teen Years - Whenever I do a Q&A with a band, inevitably somebody asks me: “What instrument do you play?” When I answer, “none,” there’s skepticism, and then the logica...

My (radio) guest tonight: a rebroadcast from 2009 of the master, Pierre Boulez, who turns 90 in March 2015 - My (radio) guest tonight/Monday: rebroadcast from 2009, legendary composer Pierre Boulez, Helen Regenstein conductor emeritus of the Chicago Symphony Orche...

Taruskin, the Director's Cut - My profile of UC Berkeley musicologist Richard Taruskin ran in The Chronicle on Sunday, at about 70 percent of the length at which I filed it. That was rig...

Fonda-ness for Beethoven - Even before she was a cool lady, she was a cool girl. Vintage Jane Fonda (with Peter McEnery) rocks a...

Bizarre Boston Blog - Emptyish streets, sheen of rain. The college students have all left for the summer, or they’ve graduated and their long lives are about to begin, or they’r...

Change Is Good (Website Redesign) - Hey out there! Just a heads up to let you know that this blog has moved! All this content has been migrated over to my primary website, alexandragardner.ne...

If You’re Happy and You Know It - The next time I’m annoyed with the world, I’m going to try and remember to stop what I’m doing and watch this video. And if I’m still annoyed, I’m going to...

Going fishing - I'm going on vacation, and won't blog again till after Labor Day. Or, more evocatively, I'm going to treat myself to some time in my private art colony, ak...

Language-Spinners and Image-Cutters - I've been thinking about the style-and-narrative issue from a new angle, and as you know, my blog thinkpieces tend to come in groups of three anyway. [ima...

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Holde Kunst Review: Robin Holloway's Essays And Diversions II - After thumbing through this (as originally published) expensive book at Borders, and choosing not to pay $50 for it, *Essays and Diversions II* has remai...

Holde Kunst Review: Robin Holloway's Essays And Diversions II - After thumbing through this (as originally published) expensive book at Borders, and choosing not to pay $50 for it, *Essays and Diversions II* has remai...

Farewell - I remember a moment during the summer of 2002, when I looked at my wife and told her that I needed to make a change in my professional life. I had been man...

La Rondine at L.A. Opera - A review of the opera company's final offering of the season, and some recordings, on downloads aon on disc. A low bow to the creator of that seird cartoon...

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