Monday, May 31, 2010

Nineteen Years and a Couple of Months

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Today is Memorial Day, in which we remember those who have died in wartime. I took this picture in South Pasadena. There are plaques for...
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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Listen to Wagner's Entire Ring Cycle in One Second

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Today is the first performance of L.A. Opera's complete production of Richard Wagner's endless four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibe...
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

A Combination of Jingle Bells and The Internationale

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Mixed Meters returns to the airwaves with my Jingle Bells-related musical offering for the 2009 holiday season. Listen to A Combination of ...
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Zappa Symphonies

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I doubt there is a stranger coincidence among musicians' names than that of Francesco Zappa and Frank Zappa .  Francesco was an 18th ce...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Docker Awards for Misusing Music as a Metaphor For Life

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If you follow the news a lot you may have noticed that one of the Supremes has decided to retire. No, not a singer; a judge on the Supreme ...
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

30 Second Spots - A Newspaper In Traffic

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You're probably wondering what sorts of things do I do at Mixed Meters when I'm not worried about foolish opera festivals and fright...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Ring Festival LA meets Hitler's Birthday

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Today, April 20, 2010, would have been the 121st birthday of Adolph Hitler. Usually Los Angeles has no public celebrations of Hitler's ...
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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Rose Harris (1911-2010)

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Leslie's Aunt Rose Harris passed away this morning at the age of 98 years, 8 months. Until she fell and broke her leg two weeks ago she...
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Friday, April 09, 2010

My Music on Mixed Meters, a history

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(Prologue: Scroll down, skip the words. There's a lot of music to listen to in this post.) One of the principal reasons I started Mix...