Recent Posts tagged with Opera
By Mark Schubin | Tuesday, November 20, 2018 - 7:00 am
Electronic home entertainment was invented in New York City for opera; so were headphones. The first compatible-color television program seen at home was opera in New York; so was the […]
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By Mark Schubin | Friday, October 9, 2015 - 10:04 am
As this is being written, the New York Mets are still contenders for the 2015 baseball championship. They won in 1969 and 1986 after having the worst record in […]
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By Michael msilbergleid | Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 1:23 pm
Where Did The Newscast Come From? SMPTE DC Bits-by-the-Bay, Chesapeake Beach Resort May 20, 2015 Direct Link (16 MB / TRT 8:14): Where Did The Newscast Come From? Embedded:
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By Michael msilbergleid | Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 5:41 am
Recorded Wednesday, October 29, 2014. A free event for National Opera Week 2014 at GoingGoingGoneSports Gallery at the Atrium at Citigroup Center in New York City (with special thanks to […]
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By Mark Schubin | Monday, May 5, 2014 - 11:30 am
The first commercial digital sound recording was of an opera. The first live television subtitles were for opera. And, now, live 4k opera streamed over the Internet. At 7 […]
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By Mark Schubin | Monday, December 30, 2013 - 12:06 am
As some of you might recall, I like to promote the idea that New York City is one of the great opera capitals of the world. In August, I had […]
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By Michael msilbergleid | Sunday, November 3, 2013 - 8:31 pm
The Fandom of the Opera: How the Audience for a Four-Century-Old Art Form Helped Create the Modern Media World A National Opera Week event at the National Opera Center, 330 […]
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By Mark Schubin | Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - 1:56 pm
The headline above was as surprising to me as it might be to you. Here’s the story. The first published information about x-rays, Wilhelm Röntgen’s “Über eine neue Art von […]
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By Mark Schubin | Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 6:18 pm
“Who Would Doubt That I’m A Man,” sheet music for a baseball song from an 1895 opera I often write about the history of media technology. So why is […]
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By Mark Schubin | Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 10:29 am
When you think of the very latest in motion-image technology, you might think of laser projection, glasses-free stereoscopic-3D, digital surround sound, high-dynamic-range imaging, and the like. Would you believe that […]
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