Daily Archives: October 28, 2012

The enormous popular success some few of Rachmaninov’s works had in his lifetime is not likely to last, and musicians never regarded it with much favor. Talk about wrongheaded prognostication. That’s Eric Blom on Rachmaninoff in the 1954 edition of … Continue reading →

The lavish 1996 restoration of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” premiered at San Francisco’s Castro Theater, with Kim Novak and Hitch’s daughter Patricia in attendance. I didn’t even bother trying to get a ticket; I was interested only in the restoration and … Continue reading →