BLOGArchive for January, 2009Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs. – Friedrich NietzscheBonjour from Menton, France. This will be my last entry from Monte Carlo before I head to Como in Italy. Happy Australia Day to everyone back home! I don’t know any other Australians here so it’s a little hard to celebrate. Wagner’s Flying Dutchman has certainly been a time where I have been kept on [...] For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. – PlatoBonjour from Monte Carlo, Monaco! The music profession works in strange ways, alas instead of being back in Australia, I am replacing another conductor at the last minute for Opera Monte Carlo’s production of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. Having only a couple of days to learn an opera and then conduct a dress rehearsal has [...] |
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