Alex Ross: Dessay v. Salieri
I wonder how much great music has been stifled by this sort of attitude. There’s certainly plenty of bad music that keeps getting performed simply because it contains high notes and pyrotechnics.
Painting, Film, and
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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Links for Feb 24, 2009
Tue, Feb 24, 2009 – 5:16 pm
Safari 42x faster than IE 7, 3.5x faster than Firefox
Wow.
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Number of links on top websites
This is really interesting, though I’m still trying to figure out exactly why it’s interesting.…
LaMaMa “New Voices Heard” in NY
Fri, Feb 13, 2009 – 5:19 pm
Links for Feb 1, 2009
Sun, Feb 1, 2009 – 11:22 pm
WFMT – Announcer Audition
Scroll to the bottom, and you’ll find WFMT’s clever audition text, with gems such as this:
“…when delivering a diatribe concerning Claudia Muzio, Beniamino Gigli, Hetty Plumacher, Giacinto Prandelli, Hilde Rössel-Majdan and Lina Pagliughi, five out…