Archive of: Maestro
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Sasha Knows...Renaissance men of science and art are celebrated in this month's Maestro's Musings. |
February 2013 |
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Four Weddings and A FuneralEverybody loves a wedding! I refer you to some of my favorite wedding music: |
January 2013 |
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Messiah, Human Inefficiency, and BeerPurchasing cheese in Romania was a model of human inefficiency to boggle the mind. |
December 2012 |
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Regifting the Gift of MusicRegifting is widely frowned upon, except when it is the gift of music. |
November 2012 |
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Married, Part TwoHenceforth, Maestro’s Musings will strive to raise the discourse to a level befitting the highest of arts. Aw heck, let’s stick with composers’ tawdry love lives. |
October 2012 |
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Married Filing SeparatelyThis month the DSSO opens its 81st season with Tchaikovsky’s monumental fifth symphony, which brings to mind three maritally challenged gentlemen. |
September 2012 |
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What Great Composers AteEvidently Ludwig van Beethoven also suffered lead poisoning resulting from his heavy consumption of cheap wine. Perhaps it was the wine talking when Beethoven, unhappy with the meatloaf, heaved plate and all at the waiter, dousing him in hot gravy. |
August 2012 |
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Roll Over, RihannaChuck Berry thought classical music was dying. Robert Flanagan, eminent Stanford economist, sees reasons for concern... |
July 2012 |
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Water MusicThoughts about water, music, and life. |
June 2012 |
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Spring FanciesIn the spring, the DSSO’s final concert of the 2011-12 season mercurially turns to Schubert and Schumann. |
May 2012 |
