Moving through time and space:
Highbrow: on Saturday we attended the Houston Grand Opera performance of Mussorgsky's dark opera, Boris Gudunov, starring international bass superstar Samuel Ramey. Sublime.
Also enjoyed meeting the folks who came all the way to Houston from Wichita just to see their Kansas homeboy Ramey.
Middlebrow: on Sunday, we thoroughly enjoyed the bravura showmanship of Wicked, the witty stage musical retelling of an imagined backstory to The Wizard of Oz, specifically how the Wicked Witch came to be. Great stagecraft and gutsy singing, although typically tuneless music (what is it with Broadway these days?).
Lowbrow: today I'm in Las Vegas on business, surrounded by R-rated ticky-tacky and faux everything.
Odd transitions over a period of 48 hours.
Posted by Alan at November 7, 2005 07:16 PM