Despite appearances, this blog is not dead. I spent most of March finalizing a score to submit to New England Conservatory for my doctorate. They’ve been expecting it for about 7 years, so push finally came to shove.
One of the last things I managed to do before the dissertation score took over my life was to write about the Greensboro Opera Company’s production of Hansel and Gretel. As an afterthought, I sent an email to the people listed on their contact page to say that I had enjoyed the opera and had written a little on my blog about it. Based on the emails I got back, they were genuinely pleased. I know from my own experience how nice it is to find that someone has heard my music and been engaged by it—a better and rarer thing than simply liking or enjoying it. An excellent thing to keep in mind if you have a blog and you’re inclined to write about the arts.
In that entry I mentioned that the fine young baritone who played the father is a student at North Carolina State University, here in Durham, and that I hoped I’d have a chance to hear him again before long. Lo and behold a comment was left this afternoon to say that his graduation recital well be about a week and a half from now:
Richard Leon Hodges’s Senior Recital
An Afternoon of Classical Music
Sunday, April 15, 2007
4:00pm - 5:15pm
B. N. Duke Auditorium on the Campus of North Carolina Central University
1801 Fayetteville Street
Durham, NC
I’m looking forward to it. His web page is well worth reading, too.
I’m also hoping to get back to Greensboro next week, when they’re doing Henry Mollicone’s Face on the Barroom Floor.