Anne Midgette

Black cat sitting intently staring out the window at the side of the neighbor's house.

I raised a windowblind that we usually keep closed, and the cat thinks I got him a new streaming service. #catsofbluesky #cats #easilyamused

This is amazing. And yes, I've been immersed in the Habsburg Empire of the late 18th century for the last few years, so right up my alley. I look forward to digging in.

The Myth of "Park and Bark" with Anne Midgette & Greg Sandow — Jussi Bjorling Society Thursday, September 18, 7pm - 8:30pm EST GUEST SPEAKER SERIES WEBINAR Members - FREE Non-Members - $35 Join former Washington Post chief classical music critic Anne Midgette and composer, vet...

Tonight: check out this webinar Greg Sandow and I are leading about singing actors, acting singers, and the myth that today's opera performances are better acted than those of the past. Register here: jussibjorlingsociety.org/events/midge...

Bondage Artists are, by and large, progressives. We believe in equal rights for women, civil rights for LGBTQ individuals, and fair representation on our stages. Saudi Arabia’s rulers do not, and Metropolitan...

Following up on the Met Opera and the Saudis - @voiceteachernyc.bsky.social wrote a great essay with plenty of outrage to spare. blog.liberatedvoice.studio/bondage/

😂😂😂 Actual lol - love that show.

Donations compensate, but there's a fundamental difference when, for instance, all the employees of an opera house are full-time government employees on government-scale salaries, as they are in Germany. That gives a security & freedom from having to chase an audience that no US house can match.

Doug McLennan once said criticism should be like a watering-hole, where people with different opinions can gather. I quote that all the time. It's not about thumbs up/down, but sparking discussion. We know there's not one "right" opinion about art; why pretend that's what criticism should offer?

"The Jeff Bezos Grand Tier." As the Met contracts with Amazon Prime for its streaming services. It's so plausible it might be true already 🤪

The Met Opera Turns to Saudi Arabia to Help Solve Its Financial Woes

So the Metropolitan Opera can castigate Anna Netrebko and get on its high horse about Ukraine -- and then get in bed with the Saudis? And at this point it seems everyone is too punch-drunk even to be outraged.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/a...

Violinist with Banana Bow

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Not sure if this will come through. ChatGPT struggled.

A piece of peach-blueberry-cherry pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on a ceramic plate

Peak August, unlocked. (No, I didn't bake it, but I bought it at the local orchard, which has its own virtues.)

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Thanks for letting me know. I reported one yesterday - hope it was the same one...

An AI overview that says the name "Midgette" is most commonly associated with a low-maintenance ornamental shrub.

Possibly my favorite AI mis-call ever.

My 13-year-old just told me he found a great way for a kid to earn money: you can get paid to write reviews about things on Netflix. I pointed out that he was sitting at the table with two parents who had supported themselves for years by writing reviews. He was unimpressed. 🤣🤣🤣

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I don't usually share Wordle results, but this one made me cackle.

Two cats, one black and one white, sit just inside an open door looking out at the rain.

"What have you done with the sun?!"

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I fly a lot, and I've learned the drill: take off shoes, computer out of bag. So this morning I took off a shoe - and noticed no one else was. Then the TSA lady yelled at me - "Did you hear anyone tell you to take off your shoes?" as if, where would I have gotten such an odd idea. 🤣 #timeschange

Yup! I would have gone on but I'd hit my character limit 🤣

Well Bold Fork Books is only cookbooks. The comic book store and the kids' bookstore are easy too. That leaves 17... can you think of 17 other genres and get one each? 😁 Biography. Literary fiction. Science fiction. Nonfiction. Mystery. Nonfiction. Thriller. Young adult. Fantasy. Romance. Self help.

Tananarive Due rocks!!!

Oh gosh, mine looks and acts very much the same, except that his jam is pushing me gently but insistently with one paw at 4 am ("Mom! You awake? How about now?").

TFW you are searching online for a cheap household item you once bought at IKEA, and you find it listed as "Vintage IKEA item from the second half of the 20th century" for $60 #ifeelold #notselling 🤣🤣

Is anyone else finding that various GPS apps are having more trouble locating their house? I live directly on a fairly main street in DC, and increasingly people are being directed to the alley behind my house, or spots a block or more up or down the street. Just me?

Today, March 24, at 1:30 AM, silent film star Don Lockwood and his friends Kathy Selden and Cosmo Brown realize they can save flop film The Duelling Cavalier by turning it into a musical (🎥 Singin’ in the Rain, 1952)

It’s worth it to read the whole thing but here’s how it begins, and for something so connected to the time Chaplin made it, boy it also seems prophetical

What musicians did after an executive order on DEI led to the cancellation of U.S. Marine Band collaboration After an executive order ending DEI initiatives, the U.S. Marine Band canceled a concert featuring young musicians of color. Veterans stepped in to mentor the aspiring musicians.

story is here: www.cbsnews.com/news/concert...

I think of the line the USPS used on a stamp in my childhood: "Letters mingle souls." Don't know origin and meaning is a bit opaque which is why I liked it.

Musikjournalistin Anne Midgette berichtet von massiven ideologischen Eingriffen Trumps in die Kulturförderung Das Kennedy Center in Washington ist eine der wenigen staatlichen Kultureinrichtungen in Amerika. Nun hat es Donald Trump nach eigener Aussage "übernommen". Die amerikanische Musikjournalistin Anne Mi...

For all you German speakers: I talked to NDR (North German Radio) this morning about Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center www.ndr.de/kultur/musik...