Archives for September 2006
Throat singing: world classical music
Last night I went to Millennium Park for the second free CSO concert this week at the park (and don’t forget tomorrow’s Day of Music; last night’s concert will be repeated at Symphony Center at 7:00 p.m.). This Silk Road-inspired program included Yang Wei on pipa, Chicago’s Radio Maqam Ensemble, and throat singers Yat-Kha from Tuva, [...]
Introducing Del.icio.us
As you can see in the previous post, I have introduced del.icio.us to my blog. I had previously added the “add to del.icio.us” function, but now I am returning the favor to the service.
I think it offers a great way of providing stories and news without having to comment or write about it myself. The [...]
links for 2006-09-12
Macy’s Day of Music at Symphony Center
(tags: chicago classical_music events)
Metropolitan Opera: in theaters now
(tags: classical_music arts_management news)
Mark Elder pleas to lift luggage ban
(tags: arts_management classical_music news)
CSO Principal Trombonist Jay Friedman’s articles
(tags: chicago classical_music)
Andrew Patner’s list of Chicago artistic immigrants
(tags: chicago classical_music immigration cultural_affairs)
One thought today
Immigration and communication
Ashley Imsand on Forward picks at some questions regarding immigration and communication. I posted a reply, which turned out longer than I thought. I don’t want all that typing to go unused here and it fits right in with my newly positioned content; so here follows my reply:
I am an immigrant and I support a [...]
Metrosexual response and other updates
Mark Simpson has a different take on last week’s Business Week article about the metrosexual. And as usual, he makes some excellent points. I said before, I was particularly content with the sentence “Oh yes, and he acquired the feminine persona we’ve become familiar with,” as I understand that he acquired this persona because of [...]
