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Die Walkuere postlude

Tonight after the live webcast of the Canadian Opera Company’s stirring DIE WALKUERE, the CBC Radio host Howard Dick invited the New York Times’s own Anthony Tommasini into the "booth" for a quick reflection on the performance. And as a … Continue reading

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A Brand New ‘Ring’ in a Brand New Space

By ANTHONY TOMMASINIPublished: September 14, 2006 TORONTO, Sept. 13 — When the conductor Richard Bradshaw, who has been general director of the Canadian Opera Company since 1998, appeared in the pit here at the company’s impressive new home on Tuesday … Continue reading

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we remember…

  a hard day for any of us New Yorkers.  we all have  dearly lost family/friends and our stories – five years later they still resonate. the photo above invokes streaming tears. a cool very fall like day today in the Hudson … Continue reading

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we remember…

  a hard day for any of us New Yorkers.  we all have dearly lost family/friends and our stories – five years later they still resonate. the photo above invokes streaming tears. a cool very fall like day today in the Hudson … Continue reading

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we remember…

  a hard day for any of us New Yorkers.  we all have  dearly lost family/friends and our stories – five years later they still resonate. the photo above invokes streaming tears. a cool very fall like day today in the Hudson … Continue reading

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Fall Cleaning continues…

update on the MISSION ORGANIZATION Project So far this week, three garbage bags of old papers, articles, “whoknowswhyikeptthis” stuff thrown out so far.  Just two more file drawers to do in my study and then to reorganise and sort thru … Continue reading

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we interrupt this blog…

temporarily for a major MISSION ORGANIZATION project.   [as in reorganizing/sorting/clearingout the study and the bedroom, then after a break the basement] update on garden: Labor Day weekend was wet and cool which helped with the beginning of the MO Project.   … Continue reading

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Alert – Canadian Opera Company’s RING webcast this week

This week (starting Tuesday) CBC is webcasting LIVE performances of Canada’s first RING cycle presented by the Canadian Opera Company in their first season at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.  CBC Radio celebrates the occasion from Canada’s first … Continue reading

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Fall Cleaning

Currently doing a Major MISSION ORGANIZATION style Project on my study and bedroom (in that order).  Started right before Labor Day weekend.  Three garbage bags of old papers, articles, “whoknowswhyikeptthis” stuff thrown out so far.  Just two more file drawers … Continue reading

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we temporarily interrupt this blog…

for a MAJOR Mission Organization project. Posts to resume in a few days. To tide you over, the progress of Wing of the Moth Shawl. Main section finished,  ready to start the Twin Leaf section. ok back to sorting and … Continue reading

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