|
|
Latest Recipes
Popular Recipes
Add Recipe
Recipes Info.
 Added Recipes: |
84 |
| Recipe-Categories: |
16 |
| Reads: |
3030 |
|
|
|
Last check: 09/07/2010
Slap count: 0
Last checked ID: 620
|
|
|
|
| June 1, 2010:
| The site has been upgraded to include some features to foil at least some of the spam bots that have hit the web of late. You will notice that there is now a "Report Spam" button on posts in the forum. Clicking this will send a note to the administrators and moderators, alerting them to the problem.
Additional upgrades will be coming; please bare with us.
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
| Nights at the Opera |
 Lorenzo Da Ponte, who wrote the librettos for ?The Marriage of Figaro,? ?Don Giovanni,? and ?Cos? Fan Tutte,? has been a troubling item for Mozart scholars. Almost everyone agrees that Da Ponte supplied Mozart with better texts than the composer had ever worked with, and that the operas the two men produced together are among the greatest in the international repertory. But Da Ponte?s contribution has often been put down to mere cleverness, stage smarts?not art, not soul, not like Mozart. This trend may be changing... |
La_Cowntessa on 01/02/2007 10:06 ·
Read More ·
0 Comments ·
434 Reads ·
|
|
| Review: The First Emperor (Alex Ross) |
| Scenes of the Near and Far East have unfolded thousands of times on the Metropolitan Opera stage, courtesy of ?Madama Butterfly,? ?Turandot,? ?Aida,? and other masterpieces of Orientalism. This season, with the premi?re performances of Tan Dun?s ?The First Emperor,? the company is finally letting a non-Western composer describe his world... |
La_Cowntessa on 01/02/2007 10:05
Read More ·
0 Comments ·
275 Reads ·
|
| New Research on Music's Effect on the Brain |
 ?Listen to this,? Daniel Levitin said. ?What is it?? He hit a button on his computer keyboard and out came a half-second clip of music. It was just two notes blasted on a raspy electric guitar, but I could immediately identify it: the opening lick to the Rolling Stones? ?Brown Sugar.? |
La_Cowntessa on 01/01/2007 14:57
Read More ·
0 Comments ·
387 Reads ·
|
| Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (NPR) |
 When Lorraine Hunt Lieberson died of cancer last July, at the age of 52, the classical music world mourned the premature loss of a singular talent. Her rich voice and intense stage presence were widely admired and praised by critics and audiences, alike...
|
La_Cowntessa on 01/01/2007 14:50
Read More ·
0 Comments ·
368 Reads ·
|
|
 |
| Stolen Violin Returned for Christmas |
 Violinist Evan Price of the San Francisco-based Turtle Island String Quartet got his Christmas present a bit early this year. His violin, which was stolen after a concert last April, was recovered by police this week...
|
La_Cowntessa on 01/01/2007 14:27
Read More ·
0 Comments ·
286 Reads ·
|
| New Mozart Work Premiered |
A recently discovered 18th-Century keyboard work believed to be one of the earliest by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been performed in Austria.
The piece - about two minutes long - was played by Florian Birsak on a harpsichord in the Salzburg Residenz...
|
La_Cowntessa on 12/31/2006 19:37
Read More ·
0 Comments ·
376 Reads ·
|
| La Scala Removes Candide from 2007 Program |
| ROME: La Scala opera house has canceled a production of Bernstein's "Candide" that features a scene with actors dancing in underwear while wearing masks of world leaders including President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair... |
La_Cowntessa on 12/31/2006 19:36
Read More ·
0 Comments ·
290 Reads ·
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
