Sequenza21/ » Washington National Opera http://www.sequenza21.com The Contemporary Classical Music Community Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:48:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky http://www.sequenza21.com/2006/09/excuse-me-while-i-kiss-the-sky/ http://www.sequenza21.com/2006/09/excuse-me-while-i-kiss-the-sky/#comments Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:54:45 +0000 Jerry Bowles http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php?p=16 Reader Bill Westfall passes along this link to a story about a new research study that reports more than one quarter of classical music fans use cannabis and 12.3 per cent of opera buffs have tried magic mushrooms.  This, I suppose, is as opposed to the 100 per cent of Grateful Dead fans who do and have. 

The finding suggests an interesting topic:  Great Composers Who Were Stoners.  Discuss.

And speaking of discussion, get on over to the new, spiffed up Composers Forum page and weigh in on Rob Deemer’s question about how important a web presence is for an active composer’s career.

Meant to mention this a couple of days ago but the WaPo has a profile of William Friedkin, director of Sorcerer, indisputedly the worst movie ever made, who is directing Duke Bluebeard’s Castle at the Washington National Opera.

I am told by a reliable source that new Met manager Peter Gelb was once punched on the grounds of Tanglewood by Michael Steinberg, who was then the Boston Symphny’s program book annotator.  Anybody got details?  Pictures?

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