I'm trying to think how I can turn my excellent opera afternoon on the Mall into an essay for publication. It has to be something about opera outreach. Sophist, you're an opera grrrrl, do you have any useful anecdotes? Standing room counts as outreach, in my book.
There's a woman at UCSF who used to sing opera and now studies the genetics of perfect pitch (among other more fundable projects). So it's not about outreach, but it ties your science/opera interests together pretty well!
Hmmm, opera outreach. Gosh, I don't have any good stories. I know that SF Opera does free concerts in various parks all over the summer. I'll have to think on that one.
Oh, I do have kind of an anecdote - what about those die-hard Wagner fans who do standing room for the whole freaking ring cycle, like all 17 hours of it? My boss did that.
It's worth hearing all of Porgy and Bess. It's super melodramatic, so it's easy to stick with it, and there's tunes you know scattered throughout - Summertime, of course, and It Ain't Necessarily So, and some other good stuff.
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I'm trying to think how I can turn my excellent opera afternoon on the Mall into an essay for publication. It has to be something about opera outreach. Sophist, you're an opera grrrrl, do you have any useful anecdotes? Standing room counts as outreach, in my book.
The Post says there were 13,000 people there. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/06/AR2005110601117.html
Weeeellll...unfortunately, no one likes opera.
Yeah, the 13,000 people all thought they were at a Redskins game. Well, other than me and E.Sto, so 12,998 of them, anyway.
There's a woman at UCSF who used to sing opera and now studies the genetics of perfect pitch (among other more fundable projects). So it's not about outreach, but it ties your science/opera interests together pretty well!
Awesome! I've never heard the whole opera...
Hmmm, opera outreach. Gosh, I don't have any good stories. I know that SF Opera does free concerts in various parks all over the summer. I'll have to think on that one.
Oh, I do have kind of an anecdote - what about those die-hard Wagner fans who do standing room for the whole freaking ring cycle, like all 17 hours of it? My boss did that.
Ooh, where was that?
It's worth hearing all of Porgy and Bess. It's super melodramatic, so it's easy to stick with it, and there's tunes you know scattered throughout - Summertime, of course, and It Ain't Necessarily So, and some other good stuff.
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