Louise T. Guinther

ltguinther@gmail.com

Blog

  • The Birth of a Website

    Now that my dream job has come to an end with the final issue of OPERA NEWS, the World Wide Web seems like a wondrous land of opportunity for a person in search of new… Read more

  • Black Voices Matter

    Time was when Black singers were not welcome on U.S. opera stages, or black audiences in many classical-music venues. The story of Marian Anderson’s historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial when the Daughters of the… Read more

  • The Newspaper of Record

    It’s fun to get a letter to the editor published in The New York Times. If you’re a writer, it’s fun to get published anywhere, even if you don’t get paid. In the case of… Read more

  • I Laughed, I Cried …

    This month, the music world lost not one but two towering figures at once—P.D.Q. Bach, billed as the last and oddest of J. S. Bach’s twenty-some-odd sons; and Peter Schikele, the serious composer and silly… Read more

  • The Greatest Tenor of All Time

    Happy birthday to Plácido Domingo, the man whose clarion voice and no-holds-barred performance style jump-started my lifelong opera obsession. Quantitatively, Domingo is almost certainly the greatest tenor of all time. He launched his operatic career… Read more

  • Public Servants

    I remember a time when politicians considered themselves public servants, or at least paid lip service to the idea that that was what they were supposed to be. In those days, a candidate could win… Read more

  • The Wonderful White World of Winter

    Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as winter in New York City. You wouldn’t have known it in recent seasons, when wet, icky days of rain and wind have all but replaced the blissful… Read more

  • Sounds of the Season, Pt. III

    Some of you may be of the opinion that by the fifth of January, I should have moved on to the sounds of the next season, though I’m not quite sure what that might be… Read more

  • The V.I.P. Cookie Tower

    Back in the ’70s, one of our family rituals at holiday time was poring over the Swiss Colony catalogue and picking out gifts for our far-flung relatives. Not being billionaires, we usually opted for a… Read more

  • Sounds of the Season, Pt. II

    What an awesome thing it was to imagine oneself one of the shepherds who heard that first Nowell, and to hear and smell some of the critters Jesus would have heard and smelled when he… Read more

  • Sounds of the Season, Pt. 1

    My first musical impulse for the season is, I’m sure, a pretty common one, at least among classical-music lovers like me. Listening to the Old Testament reading on the second Sunday in Advent—“Comfort ye, comfort… Read more

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I’m Louise, an editor and writer on the arts, with a particular interest in opera. I’m also a foodie, a cat-lover, a lifelong Episcopalian and a proud bleeding-heart liberal. All of those things will no doubt make their way into my blog, which will be dedicated to my random reflections on life.

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