Jazz (We’ve Got): Marissa Regni and the National Symphony Orchestra, 4/15/26 Here’s a review of Marissa Regni playing the hell out of Jacques Loussier’s second violin concerto, plus two of the greatest masterpieces of the classical canon. One of the latter even sounded good…

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I also find boba actively unpleasant, but my wife and son like it, and I can play Street Fighter

Nice, Street Fighter

All Washington Nationals fans are required to remember Livan fondly in their hearts always

Believe it or not, there are still concerts occurring at the Kennedy Center. Like this NSO program, in which Marissa Regni played the heck out of Jacques Loussier’s Concerto for Violin and Tabla washingtonclassicalreview.com/2026/04/16/w...

What a waste. So much money to not solve a problem. Almost unconscionable

Fat Boys are very underrated IMO

I have definitely seen young people go to the symphony dressed for prom. I hope they are not too disappointed by the predominantly business-casual attire

My review of Njioma Grevious’s concert with the Chiarina Chamber Players, hot off the WordPress washingtonclassicalreview.com/2026/04/12/v...

A totally boss Metro hat that says Silver Spring on it, on the head of a middle-aged dad wearing a Metro T-shirt

This is a good hat. Available at the Metro pop up through Sunday

Always good to know you may be wrong even when you are pretty sure you are right

WBJC is playing Eroica because it’s the anniversary of its premiere. I am not sure I would have appreciated this thing as an 18th-century critic. I’d probably have said something like “moments of arresting invention and emotion, but full of bizarre longeurs and outbursts that dull its impact

Always good to know you may be wrong even though you think you’re right

On vacation in San Diego and, unlike the Washington Post; the Union-Trihune covers classical music

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Once again this was a youtu.be/-1YjmXSyHa8?...

That is incredibly sad

Would

I hope I can go to La Casita and get the most Maryland food item I know of, the crab pupusa

It looks like you took the train ahead of us out of service? After a long while

@wmata.com what is going on on the red line this morning? Been waiting at Silver Spring and Takoma for many minutes with nary a Metro Alert to be found

Manute and Mahorn? Takes me back to

So good!

It’s Rimsky-Korsakov’s birthday, boyeee! Time to blast Scheherazade on the headphones

I regret not being able to participate in this event

Give the people what they want

I was never more let down in my life than when my travels took me to the part of Seminary that got the road diet. I expected gridlock for miles. Actually there was negligible traffic of any kind. The road NIMBYs deceived me!

As someone with inconsistent at best social skills, I have to watch my derision when I meet someone with even poorer social skills

Are you planning to replace this sign at some point?

Blargh

Incredible conversation on the Metro this morning in which a young person confidently and repeatedly asserted that there is no way to get from the Great Lakes to the ocean on a boat