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Bill Buckner, Won’t You Please Come Home?

Posted in Milestones, baseball, tagged , , , on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Quoth the Elder: “The Red Sox understand that Greek Drama will be written by Geeks and Dons.”
Seems it took two World Series wins to chase all the ghosts rattling the Nation’s cage. Good for all concerned. PS. Sox won the game, too…Five-zip.

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Hockey Night in…..Symphony Hall?

Posted in Canada, Classical Music, Conductors, Montreal, baseball, hockey, orchestras, tagged , , , , , , , on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Looking out at the snow and ice on a twenty-degree day, a story from yesterday’s Toronto Globe & Mail to warm the cockles o’my ice-skating heart: news of a Hockey Symphony…Now, there have been a fair amount of baseball-themed symphonic pieces (including Robert Russell Bennett’s “Dodger Symphony,” with a cameo at the premiere by Red Barber himself), but this is the first I’ve heard of an ode to hockey in the concert hall. California native Nagano explained that it all came about as part of his ongoing effort to Get To Know His New Country:

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Meanwhile, back in Cleveland

Posted in Politics, baseball, tagged , , , on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Maybe this is why the Tribe lost: What’s up with that ridiculous mascot? That’s what the Christian Science Monitor wanted to know last week.
So when you watch the Cleveland Indians on television this week, watch your kids as well. Ask yourself what the image of Chief [...]

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Red Dress’n’ Red Sox

Posted in Classical Music, Composers, Musicians, baseball, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Red Dress: Belongs to Julia Fischer, soloist last night in an absolutely transcendent performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, with Yuri Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic at the Ken Cen. She managed to be noble, elegant, energetic, engaged, even playful…and at all times serenely musical.
In my Concert Preview for her performance [...]

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Before Game 7 : Quote of the day from John Smoltz

Posted in baseball, magazines, tagged , , , , on October 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

….in the latest issue of ESPN The Magazine…”from a pitcher with more wins [15] and more strikeouts [194] than any other pitcher in playoff history.”

“I love to watch guys in the moment. I loove to see what they’re capable of doing.” Because I believe that when you get squeezed, what comes [...]

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Cleveland Rocks!

Posted in Celebrities, Classical Music, Critics, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, baseball, orchestras, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Disclaimer: This is posted by a card-carrying member of Red Sox Nation, now smarting over a 3-1 deficit in the ALCS…
Monday was a good night for Cleveland at the Jake and at the Ken Cen, where yours truly got the chance to see the fabled Cleveland Orchestra up close and personal. [...]

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Trackback: WETA & The Globe, and the O’s

Posted in Classical Radio, Climate Change, Country Music, Rock Radio, Satellite Radio, baseball, public radio, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

When I first wrote about the George/Globe/’GMS-gone-down-the-pubradio-block events I mused that “DC Radio was about to get a lot more interesting.” True that…the latest Washington ratings (for Winter 2007) had a Spanish-language station (“El Zol,” formerly the legendary alternative pioneer WHFS) at the top of the heap; we’ve got the corporate “greenternaltive” of [...]

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