The Sorcerer is minor Gilbert & Sullivan. It was the first full-length 'Savoy opera', although they'd done a Christmas pantomime (Thespis) and they didn't really take off as powerhouses until their next show, HMS Pinafore. But there is much to like about Sorcerer, especially its tuneful score. My friend Gary Slavin is a very talented …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
Hernias and Spiked Teapots
Some bitzies to get you caught up before I describe this bizarro 4-day weekend. Let's see: We've been rehearsing for next weekend's QUO concert. A few weeks ago, we had an organizational kerfuffle where our wonderful assistant conductor up and quit. She raised some valid concerns about how the orchestra deals with trans and non-binary …
Fandom
I know I'm way behind in blogging. I kept almost blogging, and then thinking nothing I had to blog about was of interest to anyone. This is a writer's trap, I know, and also made me wonder if it was a sign of depression. And then I thought, "no, it's not that my life is …
Oscar the Grouch
Some years, we make the effort, and this was one. After the Oscar Nominations, I printed out the list and we made a good faith effort to see all the big stuff. By this past weekend we'd seen all of the Animated Features, most of the acting nominations (sorry, Penelope Cruz), and all the best …
Crumbling Eyeballs
So, last October, I was warming up at home for a concert that night and suddenly I got floaters in my right eye. I'd never had them before, but I knew what they were. This was like having a tangle of hair wafting vaguely back and forth. "Well, fuck", I opined. So I scheduled an …
Sproing
As a kid, I had a book of 'B.C.' comics. Alas, a quick Google does not find this particular strip, but BC is standing in snow, and a flower sprouts right beside him with a "sproing" sound effect. Flower has a little bit of snow on top of it. BC: looks at flower Flower: Sproing …
West Side Story 2021
We saw it! We really liked it! I'm somewhat surprised that C liked it as much as he did - he's the first to not like new versions because they're not identical to the old ones. But it's really good. I don't think it supplants the 1961 version, delighted to have both of them. Interesting, …
Unfreezing
I am very much looking forward to warmer weather. I did maintain the (minor) weight loss I pulled off after the holidays, but stalled out, and a simple 'get up every morning and powerwalk' once it's warm enough to do so will help me tremendously. Still stuck in the mire here. I can't go into …
Halfway through
The winter, that is. I definitely need to blog more, although it does feel like we've been stuck in a mire. Lots of cold weather keeping us indoors. Then, a couple of weekends ago, I came down with 'a cold'. I'd been out Monday night the 31st with friends, also had at least one other …
Two weird things
So... the first weird thing is I am quite possibly losing my mind. As part of winter cleaning, I took the coats from the back of the front hall closet out, laid them on the guest bed, and had C review them to see if there were any he wanted to donate. And two of …
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