Posts in Goldovsky Opera
Live Performing Arts Events for Every Man, Woman, and Child: A Look Back By Thomas Wolf

In the 1920s, someone got the bright idea that there was a way to create performing arts series in over a thousand small towns in the United States. To learn more about the brilliant concept and how it changed the face of the performing arts in this country, read here.

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The Union, ICSOM, and Family Strife by Thomas Wolf

If one really wants to understand how the music business developed in the second half of the twentieth century, there is no better musical family to study that the Gomberg/Zazofsky clan. Their story and our family’s relationship to theirs provides a behind-the-scenes look that no history book can provide.

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New Offerings in Leporello's Catalogue by Thomas Wolf

My Uncle Boris Goldovsky’s favorite opera was Mozart’s Don Giovanni and there was nothing more fun for me than playing first flute in his touring opera orchestra night after night, especially when he was on the podium conducting. I was 25 years old the first time I had occasion to so do.

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