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There is a good article recently in the New York Times which discusses a recent master class by Barbara Cook at Juilliard. The writer reports that Ms. Cook spent a majority of the time talking and working with the performers … Continue reading →

The hudson river is all white caps today. With the brown sliffs of the palisades against the white snow, the river is sloshing back and forth between its banks as if giant hands were rocking.a basin back and forth.

11:57 am EDT   DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER Dirigent Marc AlbrechtChorleitung Eberhard FriedrichInszenierung Claus GuthKostüme undBühnenbild Christian SchmidtDaland Jaakko RyhänenSenta Adrienne DuggerErik Endrik WottrichMary Uta PriewDer Steuermann Norbert ErnstDer Holländer Jukka Rasilainen Bartok Radio   Radio Tre    NRK Alltid Klassisk

operacast – Bayreuth 2004  12 noon EDT DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDERDirigent Marc AlbrechtChorleitung Eberhard FriedrichInszenierung Claus GuthKostüme undBühnenbild Christian SchmidtDaland Jaakko RyhänenSenta Adrienne DuggerErik Endrik WottrichMary Uta PriewDer Steuermann Norbert ErnstDer Holländer Jukka Rasilainen

Domingo Wants to Conduct at Festival By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 9:05 a.m. ET July 26th BERLIN (AP) — Placido Domingo would like to conduct at the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth. ”I have already sung there, so why … Continue reading →

RETURN TO FLIGHT Discovery is slated to dock with the ISS at 7:18 a.m. EDT Thursday  

Macworld UK – Pro opera outfit unleashes free podcast Check it out…..

SouthernGal is honored to be mentioned on  The Standing Room’s blog. 

Former columnist Susan Lydon diesBy Katherine Pfrommer, STAFF WRITER from The Oakland Tribune Susan Gordon Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone and a former Oakland Tribune columnist, died July 15 in Florida after a long battle with cancer. She … Continue reading →

not enough knitting.  The balance of life is disturbed, the goal of this week is to get it back in sync and that includes knitting again.  Sadly Branching Out has visited the frog pond – not sure if its going … Continue reading →