Monday, August 22, 2011
It's a rare treat for me to embark upon a road trip armed with a stack of long-overdue-to-listen-to CDs for the journey. I don't own a car, so only get to drive in rental vehicles. And when …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 11:57AMThursday, August 18, 2011
In the world of journalism, the arts are considered a niche.Until recently, I had always thought of niches as being at a bit of a disadvantage in terms of getting enough attention to make th…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:19PMMonday, August 15, 2011
One thing that I am appreciating as I delve deeper into the worlds of magic, vaudeville and circus, is how much of a difference the ingredients of theatre -- most obviously, narrative and ch…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:54PMTuesday, August 9, 2011
I had been warned by a few magicians that The Magic Castle, Hollywood's exclusive supper club for magicians which is widely considered to be ground zero for magic in this country, would not …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 08:38PMMonday, August 8, 2011
A weekend of motley cultural pleasures, which I'd like to summarize for you:1. Lamplighters' H.M.S. Pinafore at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Having been blown away by the Oregon Shakespe…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 08:14PMFriday, August 5, 2011
The other day, a random person I met in a bar asked me if I knew the difference between conjuring and magic. I confessed that I thought they were the same thing.Apparently they are not.Accor…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:46PMWednesday, August 3, 2011
I've just been engaged in an interesting impromptu email exchange about reed players with one of the editors at the New York Times. I've been writing about Classical Revolution this week for…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 05:24PMMonday, August 1, 2011
I've been wanting to visit the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) ever since I first heard about the massive, southern Oregon-based company's fame upon arriving in the U.S. in 1998. I'm asham…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:13PMWednesday, July 27, 2011
I learned something new last night during an interview about boychoirs for VoiceBox, the weekly public radio program on KALW 91.7 FM, podcast series and website which I host and produce all …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:31PMMonday, July 25, 2011
There are many interesting things to say about The Trip, Michael Winterbottom's luminous and positively-reviewed film starring the British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. Commentators…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 06:04PMFriday, July 22, 2011
Generally, it's easy to find out the run-time of a performance. Just ask the box-office or an usher. If you're not enjoying yourself at the theatre, you can either leave (if it's feasible to…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:32PMThursday, July 21, 2011
It's interesting when two forces of good in a community find themselves in direct conflict with one another. How does the community judge which "good" gets precedent?I've been cogitating on …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:41PMWednesday, July 20, 2011
Just finished reading Wendy Lesser's luminous book about Shostakovich's string quartets, Music for Silenced Voices. I recommend this to anyone who wants a starting point into the composer's …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 11:37AMTuesday, July 19, 2011
Just returned from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where I spent five days singing Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the Festival Chorale of the Grand Teton Music Festival, hiking, biking, swimming and ge…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:38PMWednesday, July 13, 2011
On Monday, myself and my regular group of theatre salonistas (Mark Jackson, Rob Avila and John and Kimball Wilkins, and Beth Wilmurt) produced the latest in our ongoing series of "theatre sa…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 07:04PMMonday, July 11, 2011
A smattering of brief thoughts regarding a weekend's culture-vulturing in San Francisco before I head off to deepest, darkest Wyoming for a week for the Grand Tetons Music Festival...1. BAN6…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 06:39PMFriday, July 8, 2011
In many musical partnerships, there's clearly a frontman or woman. But in the case of the collaboration between Americana singer-songwriter-instrumentalists Gillian Welch and David Rawlings,…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:49PMThursday, July 7, 2011
It's amazing what great theatre artists can manage to pack into a mere 75 minutes of stage action.Mark Jackson's tightly-wound and deeply affecting production of David Farr and Gisli Orn Gar…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:01PMWednesday, July 6, 2011
Yesterday, while awaiting breakfast in a Tahoe City cafe, I was gazing up at a television screen on which a variety of young men with chiseled torsos were undertaking daredevil activities on…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 06:33PMThursday, June 30, 2011
What fealty does a freelance (arts) journalist owe to her media clients? What does an editor working from within a media organization owe a trusted freelancer?The media industry is changing …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 04:59PMTuesday, June 28, 2011
I've been mulling over the ways in which the directors of Wagner's Ring Cycle and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (Francesca Zambello and Joel Sass, respectively) which I saw last week chose …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:30PMMonday, June 27, 2011
I'm barely pausing for breath after seven long but lustrous nights (well, six nights and one afternoon to be precise) of Bay Area culture. Here's a quick round-up:MONDAY JUNE 20 - Leading La…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 08:43PMFriday, June 24, 2011
I'd like to end the week by sharing this link from the composer John Adams' website. It contains the text of a terrific commencement speech which he gave last month at the Juilliard School o…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 06:04PMThursday, June 23, 2011
The San Francisco Opera's new Ring is in full swing.Although technically we're not quite halfway through Francesca Zambello's production in terms of hours spent in seats at the War Memorial …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:45PMWednesday, June 22, 2011
It's been an interesting couple of weeks for impassioned feedback on pieces I've written about various arts events in the Bay Area. The variety of approaches and fury-levels prompts me to cr…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 05:00PMTuesday, June 21, 2011
The chorus in which I sing garnered a gushy review from the San Francisco Classical Voice for this past weekend’s pair of concerts devoted to contemporary Scandinavian repertoire.What amaz…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 09:23PMWednesday, June 15, 2011
Fog and Smog, a San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles-based collective of composers, film editors, producers, designers, DJs, animators, photographers and other culture industry types has c…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 11:17AMTuesday, June 14, 2011
When Glee premiered a couple of years ago, I was the Fox TV series' biggest fan. I watched the first couple of series avidly, and then my viewing dropped off. I got busy. And I just didn't …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:44PMFriday, June 10, 2011
Brief roundup as I'm nearing the end of a hectic week. 1. The Chorus America Conference is in full swing here in San Francisco. Everyone's talking social media. Tweeted my way through a disc…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:16PMMonday, June 6, 2011
A few days ago, Barbara Sachs Osher, the Honorary Swedish Consul General in San Francisco and a well-known philanthropist and chair of the Bernard Osher Foundation, hosted a dinner for the m…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:08PMSaturday, June 4, 2011
Sometimes the reasons for experiencing a work of art can seem a bit random. But there's nothing wrong with that.I was in Los Angeles and at a loose end last night. Of the thousands of cultur…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 09:47PM 
