Blog for One

We are both off on a 5 day jaunt to Prague with our niece. Planning to see Don Giovanni at the Estates Theater in Prague on the occasion of Mozart’s 250th birthday celebrations. I’ll be taking lots of pictures, as apparently this is mecca for Mozart lovers. This is where Don Giovanni had [...]

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From the Washington Post, an interesting article on the brouhaha arising from newspaper caricatures.
The article provides some thought-proking commentary on the 12 caricatures appearing in a Danish newspaper.
On sacrilege:
…We may cluck about the lack of freedom in Iran, but we have grown very orthodox about the way we speak of religion in our own public [...]

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According to this article on Channelnewsasia.com, Antonio Salieri’s music is making a return to the stage.
“The vast refurbishment of Milan’s La Scala opera house will be disclosed Tuesday with the appropriately named work — “Europe Revealed” — with which the house was inaugurated 226 years ago.
“Europe Revealed,” or “Europa Riconosciuta,” is by Antonio Salieri, [...]

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