Beethoven, Manatees and Ringtones: A Night with LA PHIL
Posted on November 28, 2011 - Filed Under California, Culture, Entertainment | Leave a Comment
Spent an evening at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA last week, my first visit to the warmest sounding (and looking) concert hall I have ever experienced. It did justice to a deeply satisfying performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 by pianist Emanuel Ax, and managed to take the rough edges off of [...]
Read More..>>A Night In Macau: Podcast
Posted on April 24, 2011 - Filed Under Entertainment, Hotels & Resorts, Macau | Leave a Comment
A Night in Macau [ 5:43 ]Charles Darwin Meets Gilbert and Sullivan
Posted on March 27, 2009 - Filed Under Video, Entertainment, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
If it ever comes to your neighborhood, as it did ours last night at San Francisco’s Jewish Community Center, see Richard Milner’s “Charles Darwin: Live and In Concert.” Milner combines his love of musical theater, especially Gilbert and Sullivan, with his scholarship as an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History to do Darwin [...]
Read More..>>Opera at the Ballpark: “Great Soprano Arrested for Possession of Thayer’s Slippery Elm?â€
Posted on June 21, 2008 - Filed Under California, Entertainment | Leave a Comment
It is a night during which the moon rises within pie-in-your-face reach, wolves howl, Druids circle Stonehenge, a night when fans at AT&T Park in San Francisco stand to sing the Star Spangled Banner before the announcer yells: “Play Donizetti!” Call us San Francisco “elitists” if you will, but where else will 20 thousand fans [...]
Read More..>>Jazz on the Russian River – Podcast
Posted on September 13, 2005 - Filed Under Audio, California, Entertainment, Places | Leave a Comment
Summa God’s Chillun Got Rhythm What I did on 9-11 Podcast MP3 I wonder what the world would be like if its musica franca was jazz rather than marches and war whoops. I lollygagged Sunday, 9-11 away with my wife and friends at Jazz on the River, in Guerneville, on Northern California’s Russian River. Jazz [...]
