Monday, January 23, 2012
A soiree devoted to people sharing their stories about Bay Area public transportation doesn't seem like it would be a hot ticket.But when MUNI Diaries, a web-based resource devoted to collec…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:39PMSaturday, January 21, 2012
Percussionist Andrew Meyerson and guitarist Travis Andrews of The Living Earth Show, a chamber music ensemble based in San Francisco, have embarked upon an unusual project -- to build quarte…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 07:23PMI fell in love with the British baritone Christopher Maltman's voice when I was scouting around iTunes for a recoding of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Songs of Travel. That was about three years …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:32AMThursday, January 19, 2012
“Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay.” &n…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:59PMTuesday, January 17, 2012
The atrium at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, CA, made for a fitting setting for The Intersection, an event which brought together thinkers and doers from a variety of disciplines to …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 10:52PMMonday, January 16, 2012
On last week's VoiceBox, composer and blogger Brian Rosen and I explored the theme of "badness" in vocal music. You can read Brian's accompanying blog post on the broadcast here.Towards the …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 03:26PMThursday, January 12, 2012
Richard Gingras, Head of News Products, Google, came to talk to my John S Knight Journalism Fellowship class yesterday. He's a thoughtful man, whose hangdog, droopy-eyed expression belies a …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:55PMTuesday, January 10, 2012
The most palpable effect of "The Artist," Michel Hazanavicius' beautiful homage to the tail end of the silent cinema era and movie-making's uneasy transition to talkies, is that it makes the…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:23PMSunday, January 8, 2012
I recorded a VoiceBox episode on Friday on the subject of "terrible songs" in collaboration with Jim Nayder, the host of NPR Chicago's Annoying Music Show, and Brian Rosen, a Bay Area-based …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:53PMMonday, December 26, 2011
One thing England still does very well during the holidays in spite of competition from the end-of-year sales, is a vivid line in eccentric niche cultural traditions.I spent this Boxing Day …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:40PMFriday, December 23, 2011
Few urban environments in the UK offer such radical cultural contrasts as Margate. The seaside town located in the southeast of England which I visited today with my parents who live in near…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 05:44PMThursday, December 22, 2011
Gareth Malone is the British chorus world's answer to Jamie Oliver.What Jamie has done to revolutionize people's appetite for home cooking, Gareth has done to bring them together in song.I h…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 08:03PMSaturday, December 17, 2011
On the similarities of two productions happening in close proximity to one another in Berkeley.After seeing of The Wild Bride at Berkeley Repertory Theatre a couple of nights ago (go see it …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:55PMThursday, December 15, 2011
How can the managers of arts organizations best control who gets press tickets to see their work?The manager of a theatre company in the Bay Area sent out an interesting email yesterday aski…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:00PMWednesday, December 14, 2011
Chanticleer schmaltzes it up for the holidays with a riper soprano sound -- and it's good.The Bay Area-based, Grammy Award-winning men's vocal ensemble Chanticleer has got the holiday formul…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 06:22PMTuesday, December 13, 2011
Could singing be a way to get horses to cooperate with humans?I hadn't heard of "Equine Guided Education" until I met Wendy Millet.Wendy spends half her life heading up the Woods Institute f…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:42PMFriday, December 9, 2011
Choral composers should look to Bach for inspiration.Earlier this week, I posted about why I feel that the choral arts, on the whole, are on a moribund track. I stand corrected for looking a…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 07:41PMTuesday, December 6, 2011
As the holiday season kicks into full swing and choral music concerts abound, I am invariably reminded of why it is that the genre has so little street cred.Here are the problems as I percei…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:46PMThursday, December 1, 2011
Almost every journalist these days feels like their beat is the most likely to become extinct first. Is one species of journalism more endangered than another?At a panel discussion last nigh…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 04:35PMTuesday, November 29, 2011
Bay Area-based chanteuse/guest blogger Pamela Rose is relieved to hear that Reese Witherspoon, star of the forthcoming Peggy Lee biopic, considers the jazz icon to be first and foremost a so…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:43PMMonday, November 28, 2011
My friend Phil Weglarz, a Bay Area-based arts therapist and allover creative genius, created a fascinating centerpiece for his Thanksgiving dinner table this year. I wasn't present at the ev…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 04:28PMTuesday, November 22, 2011
Stephen Hinton, a music professor here at Stanford, sent me a link to a rather wonderful essay that Brian Eno wrote (and then read out aloud for the "This I Believe" segment on NPR's Weekend…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:12PMMonday, November 21, 2011
Bay Area culture is a many-splendored thing. You don't have to go to a theatre, concert hall or art gallery to have a cultural experience.The only "traditional" arts event I attended all wee…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:34PMFriday, November 18, 2011
I'm not entirely sure why the main character, Joseph, in Aurora Theatre's new theatrical adaptation of Stravinsky's 1918 chamber music work The Soldier's Tale needs to be played by a puppet…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:00PMTuesday, November 15, 2011
The theatre salons that I've been running every few months for the past seven years or so with a cohort of friends from the performing arts world in San Francisco often surprise me -- in a g…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:33PMMonday, November 14, 2011
I like it when performance artists succeed in integrating most or all of the senses into their productions. This is a hard thing to do. Smells and tastes in particular can be so overpowering…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 05:47PMThursday, November 10, 2011
Should media organizations be producers of live events in addition to (or instead of being) producers of traditional 'mediated' content?Having experienced Pop-Up Magazine's live journalism e…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 05:07PMWednesday, November 9, 2011
It's weird to be an arts person on a campus that's much more focused on business, science and sport.Only yesterday, during a workshop I was leading with the few students who serve as writers…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:25PMMonday, November 7, 2011
A few thoughts carried over from a weekend of getting up to various things:1. Carrying the Keys: A few months ago, I spent a tense hour or two watching three burly guys transport a piano bel…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:21PMWednesday, November 2, 2011
The Merce Cunningham Dance Company visited Stanford last night on its farewell tour under the auspices of the university's wonderful arts presenter, Stanford Lively Arts. Memorial Auditorium…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:50PMTuesday, November 1, 2011
I won first prize at a Zombie Freestyle Dance Competition last night.My routine, made up on the spot, involved lots of flailing about on the ground.It was quite postmodern.
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 04:18PM 
