A music blog written by Rich Brown
The biggest hole in my education is the knowledge of other languages, besides my native English. Seriously, it is a wide gaping expanse that you could drive a truck through. I know just enough Italian, German, French or Spanish to start a bar fight in some of the best pubs and cafes in Europe. My... Continue Reading →
In a couple of weeks, I will be attending a performance of one of the world’s best loved operas, Puccini’s La bohème, at the Detroit Opera House. Michigan Opera Theatre is opening their fall season with the crowd favorite. It is one of my favorite operas as well. When I adopted my cat a few... Continue Reading →
One of the most well-known stories in all of music has to be the infamous exchange between Austrian Emperor Joseph II and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Emperor had just heard an opera by Mozart and complained, “That is too fine for my ears – there are too many notes.”. Mozart’s famous reply was, “There are... Continue Reading →
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