Words alone fail to serve up the big picture and convey the experience that was last evening's Verdi Requiem by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. It would be redundant for me to continue then, but someone's got to do the dirty job ( Read more... )

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Wow!

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and double Wow!

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18 years later! Agnes of God indeed.

No wonder I'll take a first-rate concert over some half-baked excuse for a stage production anyday...

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Elizabeth Taylor was once stopped by a fan outside a museum who, pointing to the Krupp on her finger, asked her why she didn't consider donating the diamond to the musuem so that many more people could enjoy it. Without blinking and missing a beat, Taylor replied that putting it in the museum would mean putting it behind glass, seen but not touched ( Read more... )