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Category: Barihunks

Sunday Morning Opera: Gerald Finley

February 3, 2019February 2, 2019 Art, Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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Sunday Morning Opera: Remember

November 18, 2018November 17, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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It will be a year on Thanksgiving day.  We remember it for the loss of three critically important people. John F. Kennedy C. S.

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Sunday Morning Opera – Sir Bryn Terfel

November 4, 2018November 3, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, Music, OPERA
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Sir Bryn Terfel Jones, golfer, turns fifty-three on November 9.

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Sunday Morning Opera: Don Giovanni

October 28, 2018October 27, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson
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My obsessive love affair with opera began on the afternoon of May 6, 1978 when Sherrill Milnes walked onto the stage in Atlanta, where

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Funny How the World Is

October 19, 2018October 18, 2018 Atlanta Braves, Barihunks, BASEBALL, Boston Red Sox, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, HISTORY, History of the Game, Met, MLB Hall of Fame, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Ted Williams
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I was going to bombast about something, but then I realized I just didn’t want to be that way as I write this, in

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Sunday Morning Opera: It’s That Time of Year

September 23, 2018September 22, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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If you are an opera freak like I am, tomorrow is Christmas, New Year’s Eve, Fourth of July, and a birthday all wrapped up

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Sunday Morning Opera: The Handsome Baritone

July 1, 2018June 24, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Thomas Hampson
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Thomas Hampson had a birthday on June 28. The man should be sainted for his Cole Porter! The man’s greatest contribution is to American

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Sunday Morning Opera: Back to My Roots

January 14, 2018January 13, 2018 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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Yesterday was the first time I’ve been able to listen to opera, or the Met since our great loss.  It was very difficult, and

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Sunday Morning Opera: Baritones and Stress

October 29, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, Bryn Terfel, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson
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You may have noticed I’ve been on autopilot the past week or so.  There are reasons.  Things were so iffy last night I was

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Sunday Morning Opera – Early Birthday Wishes for Verdi

October 1, 2017September 30, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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October is a big month for operatic birthdays, with three big ones all within a few days of one another.  Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi

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Sunday Morning Opera: The Knightly in Opera

August 13, 2017August 14, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, Bryn Terfel, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson
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Yesterday, I created a list of the most chivalrous men in history.  What better way to celebrate chivalry than with opera?  One of the

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Sunday Morning Opera: My Met Top 50

May 21, 2017May 20, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Erwin Schrott, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson
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We opera fans are a strange bunch of fanatical and very insane individuals.  We’re as bad as baseball fanatics.  Quite often we are one

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Sunday Morning Opera: Baby What a Big Surprise!

May 14, 2017May 13, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA 1
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  “…There are standing ovations, and there are standing ovations. Those looking for one of the superlative kind would have witnessed an example last

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Sunday Morning Opera: “New” Met @ 50!

May 7, 2017May 6, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes 1
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This evening the Metropolitan Opera will celebrate 50 years at Lincoln Center.  When it opened, the NY Times gushed: “…On September 16, 1966, the

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Sunday Morning Opera: Marian Anderson

February 19, 2017February 17, 2017 Barihunks, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera
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A few weeks ago it was announced that Harriet Tubman was going to be featured on the new twenty dollar bill.  It received a

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Sunday Morning Opera: I Want to Hold Your Hand (sort of)

January 15, 2017January 7, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Erwin Schrott, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson
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This is my favorite duet. Don Giovanni: There I’ll give you my hand, There you’ll say yes: See, it is not far, my love,

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Sunday Morning Opera: Celebrating the Greatest – Ever

January 9, 2017January 11, 2017 Art, Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, Classic Hollywood, Cultural Illiteracy, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Hank Aaron, Historial Ignorance, HISTORY, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes
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Beginning at midnight on January 10, I’ll be tweeting 24 hours of music honoring the greatest baritone there ever was. There is a classic

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Sunday Morning Opera: The Greatest – Ever!

January 8, 2017January 7, 2017 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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Tomorrow is the birthday of the greatest baritone of them all, the one who put the hunk in the word baritone and the rest

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Sunday Morning Opera: National Opera Week

October 30, 2016October 29, 2016 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, Leontyne Price, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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Two things are going on this week. First, it is National Opera Week. Secondly, today is annual Richard Tucker Foundation Gala. The more I

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I Understand Tosca

July 12, 2016July 11, 2016 Abuse, Art, Barihunks, Baritones, CRIME, CULTURE, FAITH, Leontyne Price, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, Sherrill Milnes
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Like I told my cousin last night, I’m frantic.  I’m terribly upset about losing my home, when it is so very simple.  What has

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Sunday Morning Opera: Tosca, I Need Tosca

July 10, 2016July 9, 2016 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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I’ve had a rough week.  I think everyone has.  At times like these, we all need a little bit of Tosca.

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Sunday Morning Opera: Sex and Politics

March 7, 2016March 5, 2016 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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There are two constant themes in opera – sex and politics.  They are almost always in the same opera.  There are times when it

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Sunday Morning Opera: Dmitri on Tour in the US

February 21, 2016February 20, 2016 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA
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Translated via Microsoft from Classical Music News, Russia “…Opera singer Dmitri Hvorostovsky begins tour of North America, which will give three solo performances together

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Sunday Morning Opera: A Barihunk To Watch

February 7, 2016February 6, 2016 Barihunks, Baritones, Opera, OPERA
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Yes, it is a registered trade mark, but I think it is highly permissible here, considering the fact that Jonathan Estabrooks is an official

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The Crying Game

January 21, 2016January 19, 2016 2016, Barack Obama, Barihunks, Baritones, BASEBALL, Bill Clinton, Classic TV, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, George W. Bush, Met, MLB Hall of Fame, Music, Opera, OPERA, PERSONAL, POLITICAL, Scotland, Star Trek, Trump
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Rule of thumb:  Real men and Vulcans do not show emotion in public.  It is acceptable, though for them to like cats.  We were

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Sunday Morning Opera: One of Opera’s Great Moments of 2015

December 27, 2015December 26, 2015 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, OPERA
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According to various and sundry operatic ‘critics’ one of the greatest moments of the year was Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s return to the Met.  There is

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Oh Holy Night

December 24, 2015December 23, 2015 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Jonathan Estabrooks, MAIN PAGE, Music, Opera, OPERA
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Jonathan Estabrooks has the distinction of being a pin-up model for Barihunks.  Not only that, but he has a voice.  He aspires to opera

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December 22, 1965

December 22, 2015December 19, 2015 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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On this day in 1965 the greatest baritone ever – debuted at the Metropolitan Opera I cannot find a recording from Faust, done by

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Sunday Morning Opera: 50 Years of the Greatest of Them All

December 20, 2015December 19, 2015 Barihunks, Baritones, Beverly Sills, CULTURE, MAIN PAGE, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes, Thomas Hampson
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On December 22, 1965, the greatest Baritone there ever was and ever will be walked onto the stage of the Metropolitan Opera (at the

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Sunday Morning Opera: Viva Verdi! Viva Rigoletto!

December 6, 2015December 5, 2015 Barihunks, Baritones, CULTURE, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Met, Music, Opera, OPERA, Sherrill Milnes
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On Friday, Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s Facebook account had a play list called Viva Verdi.  Works for me.  Verdi was a baritone.  His best roles were

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

screen-shot-2016-10-29-at-10-50-47-pm SJ Reidhead (aka The Pink Flamingo) is a writer based in New Mexico. The author of two published novels, both westerns: Dust Devil and The Second Mrs. Earp and two published works of non-fictions: TRAVESTY: Frank Waters Earp Agenda Exposed and A Church for Helldorado, Endicott Peabody's 1882 Tombstone Diary. One of the leading authorities on the life of Wyatt Earp and Tombstone during the Earp years, she is writing a series of murder mysteries set in modern day Tombstone. The author is also working on a book about fashion in the Wild West. When complete, there will be over 2100 unpublished antique photographs dating from 1855-1910.

The author's work has appeared in Wild West, True West, Blogcritics, and The Tombstone Times. Recently the author has had to deal with a father who succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease. This is leading to a book dealing with the frustrations of dealing with the frustrations of the disease, finance, legal, health-care, and things no one bothers telling families about it. A portion of the book will contain entries from a blog she kept, detailing the struggle with her father's AD. She is also working on a murder mystery series set in modern day Tombstone and Cochise County. Several books of essays on Christian living are currently in edits. A book of essays and revisions of articles about Wyatt Earp has been completed and will include her latest work detailing her theory about the murder of his second wife, Mattie.

SJ Reidhead has been involved in Republican politics since she was 'a little kid'. During the Reagan years she was a lobbyist working with various non-profit organizations who were attempting to salvage NASA and the American space program after the disastrous Carter years. In spite of ups and downs, and numerous disappointments, politically, it is obvious the only political hope for this country is via the Republican Party. Along with politics she is an opera fanatic, has been known to stalk baritones to the point of being a baritone junkie, and loves baseball.

The Pink Flamingo went on line on October 4, 2005.

THE PINK FLAMINGO STORY

It started out as a joke. During the seven years I worked with the girls of my parish, leading a youth group, one of the things that I stressed were manners. Part of having manners, the way I see it, is to know how to set a proper table, host a party, cater it, and clean up afterward. I was fortunate enough to have a group of very talented girls in my youth group. They learned how to plan for, and execute large church functions, very properly. During one such function I noticed there were several incredibly tacky pink flamingos sitting on the table. Knowing the girls were up to something, I said nothing. A few months later they did the same thing at a function I was hosting at my home. I said nothing. They had a birthday party for me. More pink flamingos appeared - and a joke was born.

Thanks to the girls, all of whom are now grown, I have a collection of pink flamingos. It has become an ongoing joke. When I began working on my political blog, I realized the only possibly title was The Pink Flamingo!

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