WNO Math: ‘Tristan + Isolde’ – Voigt
The problem with building an opera around a star is that sometimes, the star will falter. So even as the cover of the Washington National Opera Playbill of "Tristan and…
Thinking of Linda Ronstadt
I was just thinking of Linda Ronstadt earlier this week, seeing her name on a list of authors who will be in town for the National Book Festival next month.…
Rosanne Cash Visits Her Southern Roots
On a day when she finished mastering her new album "The River and the Thread," Rosanne Cash played a few songs from it and talked about its origins from deep…
The Sitcom Writer Behind ‘Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour’
At the crowded CBS party the other night on press tour, the guy I sought out first had more to do with music. Eddie Gorodetsky has a long history in…
Playing a Live Score to ‘West Side Story’
It's been a popular thing for a decade or more for orchestras to sub in scores live for silent movies. A little more unusual is presenting live soundtracks to talkies.…
Stones Invade L.A. Club
The Rolling Stones threw their traditional warm-up club gig Saturday in L.A., before 700 people in a club called Echoplex in Echo Park. The surprising thing may have been the…
Remembering Annette Funicello, 1942-2013
It may have been the assertive way she said her name: "Annette!" Or that she was the tallest of the first batch of Mickey Mouse Club Mouskateers (certainly she was…
Songs That Won’t Get Played at Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral
They spent the day eulogizing the former prime minister, who likely put a stamp on British politics, for better or for worse, for more than a decade But few political…
The Feelies at the 9:30 Club
The Feelies fill a spot in rock history between the guitar drone and deadpan delivery of the Velvet Underground and the exuberant guitar pop of R.E.M. When they released their…