Tuesday September 30th, 2025 – As of today, Oberon’s Grove – my on-line “open diary” for 19 years – is no longer viewable. For the past few weeks, with the help of my co-writer Mark Martinez, I’ve been working to bring more that 2,000 articles from the Grove to this different part of the forest: Oberon’s Glade.
The transfer did not go as smoothly as I had hoped; for technical reasons, certain articles could not be pried from their longtime home in the Grove. I ended doing a copy-and-paste job on several entries that I especially wanted to keep.
So, as you scroll down, you’ll come upon a number of stories that are not in chronological order; some date back several years, and the subject matter is rather random. After those, you’ll come upon articles from the first half of 2025, running back as far as 2009.
Along the way, you will find links that don’t work and other annoying little errors. In the weeks ahead I will do what I can to find and fix these.
Starting tomorrow – October 1st – chronological order will be restored, and reviews/articles by me and my music-loving friends – Shoshana Klein, Lili Tobias, Ben Weaver, Mark Anthony Martinez II, and Lane Raffaldini Rubin – will appear as the NYC opera/dance/classical music season unfolds.
Philip aka Oberon
Oberon's Glade 