On Site Opera Quiz

By Mark Schubin | Monday, October 23, 2023 - 10:22 am

How well do you really know opera? For instance, why is World Opera Day on October 25? To celebrate the day, On Site Opera will offer a live, free, ten-question, […]  More

The Baseball-and-Opera Building

By Mark Schubin | Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - 2:18 pm

  Once upon a time, a little pig lived with four geese on a rooftop farm high above the streets of New York City. The little pig’s name was Nanki-Poo. […]  More

The Motion-Picture Inventor (a baseball & opera story)

By Mark Schubin | Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - 10:23 am

  In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, originally a radio series broadcast in 1978, hyper-intelligent beings create a supercomputer to answer “the ultimate question of life, the universe, and […]  More

Peter Centen's Slides for the 2013 SMPTE TSC

By Mark Schubin | Friday, April 5, 2013 - 6:55 pm

Peter Centen’s 2013 TSC slides  More

Opera-Movie Notes

By Mark Schubin | Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 10:13 am

Opera-Movie Notes  More

Sivowitch Historical Engineering Award Notes

By Mark Schubin | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 10:51 am

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The Met's First Telecast

By Mark Schubin | Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 1:30 pm

Here are some images from the Met’s first telecast, om March 10, 1940. First, the program: Next, NBC’s write-up, from a publication called Television’s First Year: Next a letter about […]  More