Month: November 2009
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RENÉE FLEMING…SHE CAME, SHE SANG, SHE CONQUERED
Renée Fleming was recently on a short tour of South Africa, and as luck would have it, I was in Johannesburg on the weekend she sang in Pretoria at the Opera House. The two cities are less than an hour apart by car, and I’m sure that at least half the audience drove from Johannesburg…
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A DEDICATION TO DIE OVER!
When Javier Perianes dedicated his first encore to me (Chopin Nocturne in c sharp minor, Op. 20) at the Vancouver Playhouse I was rendered speechless for at least 20 minutes. What an extraordinarily wonderful thing to have happened. There’s actually a story behind Perianes and that Nocturne. This goes back about three years. I had…