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La Cieca welcomes to the editorial desk of parterre.com new correspondents squirrel and Ercole Farnese, who have already begun their blanket coverage of the New York City opera scene. 

Congratulations as well to CruzSF! For his astute commentary in the Future Shock thread, he will receive the coveted autographed copy of Sacrificium. La Cieca is sure you will all join her in raising a celebratory Castratini to his victory.

As for further additions to the parterre staff, La Cieca is still poring through the vast and dauntingly superb reviews that have gushed into our Sunnyside offices, which is mostly her own fault for locating in a basement apartment. She will send out invitations to further assignments to those best of the best in the next week or so.

In the meantime (and even afterward), please remember, cher public, that La Cieca is very interested in what you have to say. If there’s something you want to write (rant, review, think piece, whatever), please send La Cieca an email pitching your idea.

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9 comments

  • 1
    CrewMantle says:

    All the best to squirrel and Ercole Farnese.

    La Cieca only runs with the finest cats!

    CM

  • 2
    tannengrin says:

    which one of the two is British?

  • 3
    louannd says:

    Congratulations! Highly interesting and educational, it’s good to see this site grow!

  • 4
    Camille says:

    SQUIRRELLY!

    Anyone who mentions Charles Rosen and uncle Miltie Babbitt in these here pages, and STILL goes all out for Der Freischutz (DAMMIT! Shoulda won!) is Okay by me.

  • 5
    squirrel says:

    Thanks, Camille – Your enthusiasm is golden. Acorns to you!

    Incidentally, I was once told by a Princeton Professor that Uncle Milt liked to skip out during intermissions of concerts on a certain night of the week because he regularly watched that Lonnie Anderson girl on WKRP in Cincinnati.

    Who cares if you listen, indeed!

    • 5.1
      Camille says:

      ACTUALLY, I USED to be a blonde, and I’ve had many a lovely tete-a-tete with him, just running into him occasionally and casually near Juilliard.

      Particularly memorable was the time I went to see the horror that is “Von Heute auf Gestern” or is it “Von Gestern auf Heute”? — I honestly cannot remember at the moment — I happened to be assigned a seat next to him, absolutely a fluke. During the course of the opera (a film) his head sunk lower and lower and lower, until finally he just about held his head in his hands as he listened to Mr. Schoenberg’s opus. The sorrow and the pity of it all!!

      Lovely man. God bless him.

      • 5.1.1
        squirrel says:

        von heute auf morgen (hindemith) ?

        “used to be a blonde” sounds like a cop out to me! :)

  • 6
    squirrel says:

    sorry, you are right, schoenberg!

    • 6.1
      Camille says:

      I am wrong about the title! It’s “Von Heute auf MORGEN”
      see
      http://www.schonberg.at – hope I got web address right.

      In any case, it was pretty hard to take, for Mr. Babbitt. It was well sung, I felt.

      Hey, could we have a contest for the WORST opera we’ve ever seen? I’ve got a candidate: FERVAAL! It was a big turkey from which I bailed at first intermission. There’s also Vaughan Williams “Riders to the Sea”. Abysmally depressing and boring. and don’t let the Vicar know I said so!

      Bonne nuit, Monsieur l’Ecureuil.
      Don’t forget what that good times gal, Mlle. Manon Lescaut said, “Profitez bien de la jeunesse”, or gather your acorns while you may….