I love opera. I also understand that I am one of only 973 people in the entire United States who do love opera. Okay, so I am under-exaggerating just a wee here. (But perhaps not by much.) There are many reasons why most Americans are generally under-impressed by opera (if they think of it at all), and I sense the stirrings of a future blog post on this very topic. Jennifer Rivera has written a thoughtful, interesting article on the loss it would mean to all kinds and styles of music if opera—the Olympic form of vocal music—should eventually disappear [...] Read more »
A Grown-Up Library
You know when you’re a kid, and you think it’s going to be so wonderful to be a grown-up? You can hardly hold yourself together in anticipation of the great adult life that will be yours as soon as your little limbs and torso and feet and hands just get with the program and grow already. Oh, the glamor! Ah, the freedom! And finally, at long last—the overwhelming excitement of your first taste of independence and adulthood! But unfortunately the charms of adulthood can start to pale pretty quickly once the bills, the errands, the perpetual lack of both sleep [...] Read more »