March 2010
7 posts
Opera Monday: Sweet-n-Low, or How Samuel Ramey... →
I’ve always been a sucker for a deep voices.
Even before I got into opera, I automatically responded to voices—speaking and singing—of gents like Paul Robeson, Howard Keel, James Coburn, Geoffrey…
Yes, Virginia, Another Autism Awareness Group →
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The recent “Smockityfrocks” brouhaha prompted a flurry of really good blog posts, and Liz Ditz has done her usual…
In Which Squillo Considers Motes and Eyes →
Pen vs. Orbit/Img. courtesy Dr. Laughlin Dawes/Radiology Picture of the Day CC lic.
“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam thatis…
Safe Birth is a Human Rights Issue →
“While women in developed countries as a whole have a 1 in 2,800 chance of dying in childbirth—with some countries as low as 1 in 8,700—women in Africa have a 1 in 20 chance, and in several…
Of Horse Races and Academy Awards →
Judy Garland as Vicki Lester, holding the Oscar Garland should have won for this film. (Img. from A Star is Born ~ Warner Bros., 1954)
Yesterday I wrote of my disdain for the horse…
And the Oscar Didn’t Go To… Great Unsung... →
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In the 1978 film California Suite, there is a brief exchange between Maggie Smith’s character—an actress who has just lost a Best Actress Oscar®—and…
Opera Monday: Vissi d’Arte →
The Opera: Tosca, by Giacomo Puccini, libretto (lyrics) by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, after a play by Victorien Sardou. Premiered at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome, January 14, 1900.