One of the upcoming operas at the Met in New York City this season is Aidanamar by the Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov. If you are an opera lover like me, you had a chance to see it in Philadelphia not once, but twice. The Curtis Institute performed it in 2008, directed by Corrado Rovaris, Opera […]
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A Gentle Giant
Philadelphia can be such a small town. One can meet people from work, old friends and foes everywhere. I met Paul through a Spanish colleague who was his neighbor in the high rise next to mine. Paul taught at UCLA for thirty-six years after receiving his doctorate at UC Berkeley in 1964, and had retired […]
Notes on a Concert
Ever since my husband, Peter, died, almost twenty years ago, I have attended fewer and fewer concerts. We used to have season tickets to the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the Guitar Society–of course–and some smaller organizations such as Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra and Piffaro, The Renaissance Band. I donated some […]
Lost at the Mall
Supposedly, I don’t like shopping malls. I remember when we lived in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, in the seventies and we thought that it was a good Holiday Season if we hadn’t set foot at the Cherry Hill Mall. We much preferred shopping in the historical town of Haddonfield, with its boutiques, small gift shops […]
What’s in a Name?
I like to start the summer reading a great book that I’ve been saving for a special occasion. It was my treat for having finished the school year and turned in the grades on time. I have been retired now for over ten years and I still do it. It used to be some book […]
Florida With a Map
I have continued on my search to find a map of Florida, although now that I have several, I’m even more lost than with any GPS system. Not to ignore the early Paleo-Indian inhabitants of the peninsula, we know that Florida’s written history begins with the arrival of the Europeans. The Spaniard Juan Ponce de […]