My favorite Leslie Nielsen memory was his episode of the TV series Night Gallery, called "The Phantom of What Opera?"--which was basically a mash-up of The Phantom of the Opera and The Twilight Zone's "Eye of the Beholder"--both of which are turned upside down for laughs ( Read more... )

Today, Daniel Berry retires from the Knoxville Public Radio station WUOT-FM. Last night was his last broadcast of Echoes Of A Golden Age; today was his last Morning Concert show. I don't know how the town's upper crust will get along without hearing "La Danza" at the crack of 9AM weekdays, or that ancient recording of the overture to Il Pagliacci ( Read more... )

(A postscript to a previous entrySince I didn't have the 'Net last night ( Read more... )

The PBS program Great Performances is presenting this week the opera "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny". Some of the hands behind the Broadway production of "Sweeney Todd" are behind this production as well. And yes, there is a song in this play that was made into hit rock records by the likes of David Bowie and the Doors ( Read more... )

Hey.

Sorry for the quiet weekend. Had to do it because Saturday was my Mom's birthday.

Went into Knoxdad today in a futile attempt to locate the new Hobbytown USA at Turkey Creek (which will be the future site of our IPMS/Knox meetings). On the way back, I heard the local public radio station play Orff's Carmina Burana suite. Looking up the ( Read more... )