tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post350936533056091797..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Opera's other ringUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-87692210750328024552007-05-11T03:36:00.000+01:002007-05-11T03:36:00.000+01:00I'd like to echo garth. That was a wonderful descr...I'd like to echo garth. That was a wonderful description of a performance.Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-22472406370785352792007-05-10T17:19:00.000+01:002007-05-10T17:19:00.000+01:00Pliable, this post cheered me enormously on a too-...Pliable, this post cheered me enormously on a too-soon-humid, storm-threatening Washington noon. A wonderful post -- insight after insight; wonderful picture after wonderful picture.<BR/><BR/>Regarding 'visionary' artist Richard Dadd, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (Legion of Honor) has on extended loan a Richard Dadd Shakespearean fantasy from the collection of the distinguished American composer and music patron Gordon (Peter)Getty. [It is in the room next to the huge "The Russian Bride's Attire" by Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky.]<BR/><BR/>Mr. Getty responded so strongly to the need for marriage, cited in the quote at the end of your post, that he, apparently, 'married' twice and maintained dual, well-separated families in special neighborhoods of both Los Angeles and San Francisco (one family of sons and one family of daughters).Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.com