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The wry world of P. G. Wodehouse | Classical Life
From 2008. The latest installments of the complete edition of P. G. Wodehouse from Overlook Press have arrived and all is sweetness and light. "Nothing Serious" (the title might serve for all of this author's writing) and "Psmith, Journalist" (the p is silent) are, if my math is correct, numbers 62 and 63 in the Overlook series,…
At the library … | classical life
At the library: My displays of books and music (I've now done several) are hardly huge successes. Sometimes, the items sit there for days without anyone checking them out. Many never get checked out. One becomes philosophical about it and learns to appreciate the small victories. For instance, I realized that though many books in…
Schumann on ‘Frasier’ | classical life
The following once transpired on network television. Things are going real bad for Dr. Frasier Crane. His high-school reunion is coming up and he's unemployed, unmarried and without a date. To alleviate the first circumstance, he goes to a job interview but blows it big time. Enter Frasier's dad and brother Niles into Frasier's apartment.…
Roger Angell, 1920-2022 | classical life
I had the considerable pleasure to interview the great baseball writer Roger Angell in 2006. Below, I reprint a Q and A I made in 2008 from the original interview. New York Times obituary here. How to write like an Angell April 29, 2008 | Orange County Register, The: Blogs (Santa Ana, CA) Author/Byline: Timothy Mangan; music critic | Section:…
May 6, 1991 | classical life
WEEKEND REVIEWS : Music : Kawakubo, Glendale SymphonyBY TIMOTHY MANGANMAY 6, 1991 12 AM PTIt takes time for a conductor to develop a rapport with an orchestra. If the Glendale Symphony’s concert Saturday night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is fair evidence, then Lalo Schifrin, now two years into his music directorship, needs more of…