Musings on ballet, classical music, the violin, and life
The Classical Girl Everyone’s asking: will there be a World Ballet Day in 2025? The real one, that is, sponsored by The Royal Ballet, The Australian Ballet and (most recently in 2023) San Francisco Ballet. Yes, you saw “World Ballet Day”s Facebook page, assuring you that it was on for 2025. Woo hoo! Or … ? Sorry to … Read more
No piece of classical music grips my ballet-dancer’s imagination like Aram Khachaturian’s “Waltz” from his Masquerade suite. Like his Piano Concerto that I blogged about HERE in 2017, it doesn’t start so much as drop the listener smack into a musical extravaganza, where the lines between listener and music have been erased and, oh Lord, … Read more
My return to Africa — if only in my mind — started early one morning last week in the most curious of places: my local classical music station. Something wonderful was playing, a suite of five movements, each one telling its own story in a distinctive musical voice. But who was it? I discerned a … Read more
In continuing celebration of ten years of the Ballet Theatre Chronicles, enjoy the first and last book of the series for only 99 cents, through the end of the year! Scroll to the bottom for the four individual links (plus a related book for free!). The adventure started with this, my 2015 New Year’s resolution, … Read more
As a lifelong Catholic, I’ve always taken Holy Week seriously in a personal way, and the reading of The Passion on Palm Sunday always deeply affects me. You’d think I’d never heard the story before, of Jesus’s triumphant arrival into Jerusalem, his Last Supper, praying in the garden of Gethsemane, his betrayal by one of … Read more