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Staatsoper: Premiere of John Cranko’s Eugene Oneginjiri-jelinek-sue-jin-kang-eugene-onegin

Staatsoper: Premiere of John Cranko’s Eugene Onegin

Published April 11, 2006

In Act II where Onegin and Tatyana meet at a Petersburg ball and Onegin tears up Tatyana’s letter to him in front of her eyes, Sue Jin Kang again went through the motions of lovesick madness well enough – it’s a scene which reminds the viewer of Giselle’s dance of death in front of the Royal party at the end of Act I of Giselle – as she flees the ballroom…. Alas, as I noted earlier Jelinek is not at his best as the older broken Onegin – maybe in a few short years (balletic life is every so short) when he is holding onto Onegin as one of his last principal roles at the Stuttgart Ballet, he will be ready to interpret the regrets of the old roué playing his final unsuccessful card.

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Buying Music Online: America and Europe

Published March 20, 2006

On a sidenote, I am certainly glad that I bought the CD’s at the concert as from both the Viktoria Tolstoy website and the ACT music website for her albums My Swedish Heart and , there are no direct links to buy either of her CD’s…. I criticise the Americans for their crass commercialism, but a discreet buy here link would be just fine.

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Two Concerts – ZeeBee and Viktoria Tolstoy: <br />Female Vocalists in Jazz, Alternative and Countryzeebee_priorities_cover330-273

Two Concerts – ZeeBee and Viktoria Tolstoy:
Female Vocalists in Jazz, Alternative and Country

Published March 20, 2006

Many of the DJ’s seem to play whatever is ghetto and cool in the United States (not the mainstream charts, but underground ones) without thinking much if they like it or not, if the music is any good or not, or whether the music means a damn thing to someone sitting in beautiful Vienna…. Zeebee played us a short set from priorities in the Rot Bar (in Volkstheater right next to Museumsquartier just outside the first district – great location).

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Safety Issues with Wifi Radiation and with Monitors

Published March 14, 2006

I’ve just banisheI am glad to see that I am not the only one concerned about computer and wifi health issues.Interface :: CRT Users Beware!: Many people are still using CRT monitors set at 60 Hz or 85 Hz around the world.What they don’t realise is that these refresh levels have side-effects of inducing tiredness, yawning, short-sightedness and the most destructive of which is tooth grinding at night. Unstable images on a CRT can induce tooth grinding subsconciously at night, since an unstable flashing image is disturbing to the brain’s nervous system.

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