All posts on “Hughes Views” by Bob Hughes
The Guest Conductor Conundrum - Friday, 12th March 2010
The Continuing Allure of Chopin - Friday, 5th March 2010
The Craft and Craftiness of Season Announcements - Sunday, 28th February 2010
Improvisation and the Classical Muse - Friday, 19th February 2010
The Back-and-Forth Influence of Jazz and Classical Music - Sunday, 14th February 2010
Impact and How to Get It (An Entirely Unscientific Analysis of What Makes For Memorable Entertainment) - Thursday, 4th February 2010
The Long Careers of a Few Charmed Singers - Friday, 29th January 2010
Leaving (Operas) Early, Losing Much - Friday, 22nd January 2010
Opera Mishaps and Inadvertent Buffoonery - Saturday, 16th January 2010
Sondheim's Peerless Night Music-- As Fresh As Ever - Monday, 4th January 2010
Farewell, 2009! A Look Back by Bob Hughes - Wednesday, 23rd December 2009
Hughes Views: Greatest Hits V. 1 - Monday, 30th November 2009
The Enduring Charm of Concert Overtures - Saturday, 21st November 2009
Mahler the Conductor, the End of the Line - Tuesday, 17th November 2009
The Irascible Conductor - Saturday, 14th November 2009
Making An Overture - Tuesday, 10th November 2009
The Roots of Conducting - Saturday, 7th November 2009
Program Music and Modern Composers - Tuesday, 3rd November 2009
The Latino Lieder Tradition - Saturday, 31st October 2009
Spooky! Or, What Composers Do To Evoke The Uncanny - Tuesday, 27th October 2009
Sounds Like Movie Music (Not That There's Anything Wrong With That) - Saturday, 24th October 2009
On Fanfare Commissions and the Repertoire - Tuesday, 20th October 2009
When Baritones Sing Tenor Roles and Mezzos Sing Soprano Roles... - Saturday, 17th October 2009
File Under "New Venues": Classical Cabarets - Tuesday, 13th October 2009
Tosca-- and Why Directors Update the Classics - Saturday, 10th October 2009
Movie Stars on Broadway - Tuesday, 6th October 2009
The Enduring Qualities of Choral Music - Saturday, 3rd October 2009
Sacred Music Lives! - Tuesday, 29th September 2009
For Composers (as in Fashion), One Day You're In and the Next Day You're Out - Saturday, 26th September 2009
The YouTube Classical Generation - Tuesday, 22nd September 2009
The Composer-In-Residence Model Evolves - Saturday, 19th September 2009
The Women Behind the Composers - Tuesday, 15th September 2009
Our Distaste for Dissonance - Tuesday, 8th September 2009
Ready for Revival: Meyerbeer and (Rare) Rossini - Saturday, 5th September 2009
Composers In Exile - Tuesday, 1st September 2009
The Trouble With Tempo - Saturday, 29th August 2009
Opera Orchestras Outside the Pit - Tuesday, 25th August 2009
Remembrance of Conductor Past - Saturday, 22nd August 2009
Looking for Brünnhilde - Tuesday, 18th August 2009
Conductivity - Saturday, 15th August 2009
Classical Music Under the Influence - Tuesday, 11th August 2009
Ballrooms and Ballet - Saturday, 8th August 2009
The Staying Power of Art Songs - Tuesday, 4th August 2009
Musical Rivalries - Saturday, 1st August 2009
The Continuing Allure of Lieder - Tuesday, 28th July 2009
Open-Air Music - Saturday, 25th July 2009
The Author at the Opera - Tuesday, 21st July 2009
Crossing Over - Saturday, 18th July 2009
Restlessness at the Theater - Tuesday, 14th July 2009
Rescuing Operas From Obscurity - Saturday, 11th July 2009
Songs In Shakespeare - Tuesday, 7th July 2009
The Emotional Violin - Saturday, 4th July 2009
This is My Country-- In Music - Tuesday, 30th June 2009
Keyboard Masters and Contemporary Tastes - Saturday, 27th June 2009
The Influence of Singers: Styles of Singing Can Be Taught, But Not Imitated - Tuesday, 23rd June 2009
Crossing Over - The Pollination of Pop and Classical Music - Saturday, 20th June 2009
The Singer as Musicologist - Tuesday, 16th June 2009
The Power of the Early-Music Movement - Saturday, 13th June 2009
The Staying Power of Trios and Quartets - Tuesday, 9th June 2009
Shakespeare and the Language Thing - Saturday, 6th June 2009
The Enduring Cast Album - Tuesday, 2nd June 2009
The Story In Opera - Saturday, 30th May 2009
Composers On Reset - Tuesday, 26th May 2009
Texting, Texting, One, Two Three - Saturday, 23rd May 2009
The British Slant on Broadway - Tuesday, 19th May 2009
Composers' Gold and Dross - Saturday, 16th May 2009
Tenors On The Verge - Tuesday, 12th May 2009
Where Are the Women Conductors? - Saturday, 9th May 2009
A Broadway Bonanza of Ensemble Acting - Tuesday, 5th May 2009
Celebrating the Other Composers - Saturday, 2nd May 2009
The Youth Movement - Tuesday, 28th April 2009
Classics, Illustrated - Saturday, 25th April 2009
The Diva Dilemma - Tuesday, 21st April 2009
Broadway Risk-Takes - Saturday, 18th April 2009
Seducing the Audience - Tuesday, 14th April 2009
There's Something To Be Said for Horns and Breastplates - Saturday, 11th April 2009
The Ends of the Musical - Saturday, 11th April 2009
Which stories make good operas? - Thursday, 9th April 2009
Eyes on the Prizes - Thursday, 26th March 2009
Let’s Hear It For Short Shows - Thursday, 19th March 2009
Dinner Music - Thursday, 12th March 2009
Paying For It - Thursday, 5th March 2009
Music Festival Fever - Thursday, 26th February 2009
Stuffy Concert-Hall Etiquette - Thursday, 19th February 2009
YouTube Symphony Scores - Thursday, 12th February 2009
Vocal Artistry in a Visual Age - Thursday, 5th February 2009
Young Artists Are Alive and Well... - Thursday, 29th January 2009
Miss Congeniality, Opera-style - Thursday, 22nd January 2009
Robert J. Hughes is a voracious cultural consumer of theater, opera and classical music, former Cultural Reporter for The Wall Street Journal and author of the novel Late and Soon.