Links on the Fourth:

Is the Long Beach Opera still with us? Alan Rich says yes (while making
some semi-gratuitious slaps at the LA Opera):

   http://www.laweekly.com/ink/99/32/a-rich.shtml

Josh Kosman's roundup of the SFO `Ring,' written before the
astonishing/excruciating George Gray marathon of all Siegfrieds all the
time -- and probably singing one today in the empty, post-`Ring' War
Memorial --

   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/07/04/PK107137.DTL

And, in the Sunday Times, a picture of the great international conductor
derby is presented by a writer whose view of American orchestras seems only
a decade outdated, you know, the time when the West was still only a swamp

   http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/frontpage.html?999

Janos Gereben/SF
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