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A Very Smart Bluffer’s Guide to Opera, Part Two: The Operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

by Barry Lenson | May 26, 2016 | Uncategorized

My last post offered a quick overview of what opera is. Today, in Part II, I’m going to describe the operas by Mozart that any bluffer needs to know about. Please come back here in future weeks, because I’ll be covering Baroque operas, German operas, Italian operas ....

A Very Smart Bluffer’s Guide to Opera, Part One: Basic Stuff You Need to Know

by Barry Lenson | Apr 7, 2016 | Uncategorized

A Very Smart Bluffer’s Guide to Classical Music, a post that I published here back in 2014, has turned out to be the most popular post ever on this blog. That tells me that people have need to bluff about classical music. And if that’s true, let’s get opera into the...

Plan to Attend the Chicago Bach Project’s Mass in B Minor in Chicago’s Harris Theater on March 11

by Barry Lenson | Feb 25, 2016 | Uncategorized

Maestro John NelsonFor the last five years the Chicago Bach Project and maestro John Nelson have presented landmark performances of Bach’s choral masterworks, including Bach’s St. John Passionand St. Matthew Passion. Critics have called those performances “powerful”...

Opera Stars Recreate the GOP Presidential Debate

by Barry Lenson | Dec 17, 2015 | Uncategorized

If you missed the most recent debate of the Republican presidential hopefuls last week, don’t worry. We are happy to recreate it for you today, using performances from operas that come eerily close to the real thing.Wolf Blitzer arrives to moderate the debate ....

All I Want for Christmas Is . . . Stewart Goodyear’s Piano Arrangement of The Nutcracker

by Barry Lenson | Dec 15, 2015 | Uncategorized

If you’ve been searching for the perfect Christmas present, we’ve found it for you. It’s the new Steinway & Sons CD of the complete Tchaikovsky Nutcracker ballet arranged for piano by a terrific young pianist named Stewart Goodyear.To apply the term “arrangement”...
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