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Classical music critic in my spare time, father, husband, Silver Springer
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Leah Hawkins is a stunning dramatic soprano, as shown at her concert with the Apollo Orchestra on Sunday afternoon, right here in beautiful Silver Spring, Maryland dmvclassical.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/j...

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I took my mom to this concert because I knew that she enjoys delightful, weird programming choices and spectacular harpsichord playing. Anna Kiskachi did it again washingtonclassicalreview.com/2025/05/11/k...

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The tables at the White Oak Potbelly are 🔥🔥🔥

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The standout in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's performance at Wolf Trap on Friday was Fauré's first violin sonata with Paul Huang and Evren Ozel: washingtonclassicalreview.com/2025/04/05/c...

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My latest for Washington Classical Review - the Thirteen doing Bach's short Latin masses dmvclassical.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/i...

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I drove for 1 hour and 45 minutes to get to this concert, but it was a good one!

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My son just said the voice between soprano and alto should be “sopralto”

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For Washington Classical Review, I attended and wrote up some thoughts on the Russian Chamber Art Society's performance of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta. It was pretty fun: dmvclassical.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/b...

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I’m young enough that the sentence “The NFL playoff game between Detroit and Washington had all the signs of a high-scoring affair” still seems like part of an SAT question we’d make fun of because the writer had clearly never watched football

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FYI fellow MoCo types, please conserve water to help avoid a bigger problem/ a possible boil water advisory. More here www.wsscwater.com/news/2025/ja...

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How it started (NO on ending exclusive-SFH zoning). How it's going (help needed to count individuals and families experiencing homelessness).

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Getting an email from the county executive talking about how we need to pause housing reform but also asking for volunteers to help with the annual point in time count of unhoused people tells you everything about the county government's priorities.

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The repeated calls for people to cancel their Washington Post subscriptions ignore the need to support outstanding journalism like this www.washingtonpost.com/sports/inter...

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