The timing couldn’t have been worse. Vancouver Opera made a bold decision to launch a new, lavish production of John Adams’s opera Nixon in China.
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A very modern opera
Some fish oil supplements contain high levels of PCB, test results show
People who take certain brands of fish oil supplements,
seeking benefits of Omega-3 fatty acids are also exposing themselves
to unnecessarily high levels of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)
compounds, newly released test results show. Brands were tested in
private laboratories by environmental lawyers as part of a labelling
lawsuit in California. The results show a major discrepancy in the
level of PCB contamination, attorney David Roe told reporters on
Monday. The group tested 10 brands of the more than 100 fish oil
supplement products on the market. Eight of the 10 makers and
sellers of fish oil, shark oil, fish liver oil and shark liver oil
supplements have PCB contamination above the so-called “safe
harbour” limits set for human PCB consumption under California’s
Proposition 65, the results, posted at fishoilsafety.com,show.
Source: Some fish oil supplements contain high levels of PCB, test
results show
By: Spencer Mills
Part of the reason people may not be willing to pay as much for eco friendly wine is the mistaken assumption by new buyers that the technology associated with cultivating eco friendly wine is new and relatively untested in the long term. Wine is something that requires a lot of time and patience and if buyers are willing to spend a considerable amount of money in a recession then they are going to make sure they get their money’s worth.
Bron: By: Spencer Mills
Are Farmers Wealthy Parasites?
That’s a question raised by this excerpt from a farmgate post on ERS research:
” For more than 10 years the median income for farm household has surpassed that of the average US family by a margin of anywhere from 3 to 21%, and farm family wealth has been 4 to 5 times [emphasis added] that of the average US family….”
Of course, my mother would add that farmers are land rich and money poor.
Duchamp: To say the Least
When The Book Tour Is A DIY Affair
“Here’s how it’s supposed to work: T.C. Boyle has published more than 20 books since 1979.
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Emilie is the work of two strong-willed women
“Something definitely needs to be done about the end”, says soprano Karita Mattila in plain Finnish after the last rehearsals of composer Kaija Saariaho’s new opera Emilie at the Opera National de Lyon.
Saariaho agrees, and the famous film and opera director Francois Girard decides to change his direction.
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Virginia Tech international music festival to feature opera, chamber music
The mountains of Blacksburg will come alive with music this summer as luminaries from the opera and chamber music worlds gather to coach and mentor a new generation of superstar performers. The two-week festival — Viva Virginia — starts June 21 and includes concerts, lectures, and master classes open to the public.
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Met premieres Shostakovich’s absurdist ‘The Nose’
Dmitri Shostakovich composed his first opera, “The Nose,” more than 80 years ago and based it on a short story written nearly a century before that.
Yet few works in the repertory seem more modern or musically challenging than this absurdist masterpiece that came to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time Friday night.
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Picture This: A Nose on the Loose
It has become commonplace at the Metropolitan Opera for directors and designers of new productions, especially modernist high-concept ones, to be lustily booed by a sizable contingent of the audience during opening-night ovations.
But on Friday night, when the Met introduced its production of Shostakovich’s early opera “The Nose” based on the Gogol short story, the South African artist William Kentridge, who directed the production, helped design the sets and created the videos that animate the staging, received the heartiest bravos.
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