sundry items

arte liveweb has Bayreuth's RW 200 concert with Eva Maria Westbroek, Johan Botha, Kwangchul Youn, and the Bayreuth orchestra all dressed up in their winter gig clothes, under the direction of Christian Thielemann.

Paul O'Dette discusses his new album of lute tunes of Francesco da Milano on the Gramophone Mag podcast.  I particularly like the tidbit of information he imparts about period payscale for Brilliant Lutenists, and think we would do well to emulate.

And speaking of, it's two weeks to Boston Early Music Festival, a whole week of staged opera, semi-staged opera, official concerts, fringe concerts, master classes, lec-dems, petting zoo, and guerrilla sidewalk period bagpiping. If you've dreamed of dropping a fiver in a busker's theorbo case, there may be no better opportunity.

How to get to Glimmerglass

Cross the cloud-deck'd heights of V'ville

and D'burg's airy regions of light

through invading hosts of the dreaded Purple Loosestrife

- following a pickup is a good bet -

ever westward-ish

down straightways so belov'd of all New Englanders

past verdant fields dotted with cows, sheep, haystacks and homemade anti-Obama signs,

beyond the hills

and the vernacular architecture

you're there

Foster roof, Gustafson water scrim, Kogod Courtyard 8.12.12