Word of the day: streber
One of my German colleagues is in town this week. As we sat through a design session this morning, he asked, “How do you say streber in English?”
I shrugged, and he said, “Go to Leo.org.” We looked in the English-German dictionary on the site, and we found the following translations: careerist, eager beaver, geek, grind, [...]
Making sense of Schoenberg
Last night’s rehearsal of Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron was … interesting. I can’t add a lot to fanw’s characterization of the rehearsal except to note that it’s a little early in the process to be gathering more than first impressions of the work. None of the singers are secure enough yet in the melodic line [...]
