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Thank you for your patience!

Cher public, the issues that have been plaguing parterre.com over the past week escalated tonight until the site crashed. It’s back up with limited features now, and we hope to be restored 100% by early Friday. Bless you all!

Like birds that weary of their roaming

Your doyenne and parterre are back from wherever it was they were. Bless you all, cher public!

Intermission Feature

You asked for it, cher public, and La Cieca is happy to olige: a post to anchor the week’s off-topic and general converation threads. Read more »

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Shelf destruction

A member of the cher public has an interesting offer: “I have about 40 years’ worth of the British magazine Opera, most of them bound, which I would love to get rid of (no charge.) No library here is interested, but I thought some opera fanatic might want them. He or she would have to pick them up from my building [on the Upper West Side].” If you are the fanatic in question, you may contact the declutterer at hooziedujour@gmail.com.

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The search for reviewers continues

Since a number of parterre’s better reviewers have recently left the fold (for the happiest of reasons, to be sure!) La Cieca is looking for a new crop of writers to critique the latest DVD and CD releases. If you’d like to audition for a spot, drop an email to your doyenne including a shipping address (i.e.,  where you can receive small packages) along with a line or two about your musical interests and disinterests.

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Pick a lot, talk a little more?

La Cieca asks the cher public (pictured) if commenting is working properly for them on parterre.com since this weekend’s server migration. Anyone having problems posting comments is asked to email La Cieca directly at lacieca@parterre.com.

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“Lost” weekend

La Cieca (center) would like to inform the cher public (also pictured) that this weekend parterre.com is moving to a new server in order to provide a faster and smoother user experience (and who of us isn’t in favor of that?) Do be aware, though, that during the transition process, some comments posted today and Sunday may fail to archive. What do do? La Cieca explains after the jump.

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Socialism

Don’t worry, La Cieca isn’t going to let politics rear its ugly head (or, since we’re talking about La Cieca here, let’s say “its pretty head”); rather, the “social” we’re talking about here is as in “social media.” Just a housekeeping tip or two for you after the jump.

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