The Forgotten, the Unfamiliar and the Unknowable
Sterling, a champion of the forgotten and unfamiliar, remains on target with these two releases.
The Forgotten, the Unfamiliar and the Unknowable
Sterling, a champion of the forgotten and unfamiliar, remains on target with these two releases.
A Naif Sees Handel’s Rodelinda at the Met
A happy survivor, I’m delighted to report that Rodelinda ranks among the best Met productions I’ve seen, a sublime meld of singing, staging and drama.
A Naif Sees Handel’s Rodelinda at the Met
A happy survivor, I’m delighted to report that Rodelinda ranks among the best Met productions I’ve seen, a sublime meld of singing, staging and drama.
Huddersfield Festival 2004: Transpontine Reactions 1.
Festivals seem de rigueur these days — as omnipresent as Mozart on an American orchestra’s season schedule.
Huddersfield Festival 2004: Transpontine Reactions 1.
Festivals seem de rigueur these days — as omnipresent as Mozart on an American orchestra’s season schedule.
Diary Entries
Emily Howard came over to rehearse my songs for the New Collective Series.
Diary Entries
Emily Howard came over to rehearse my songs for the New Collective Series.
Rule of the Plowman
“Certain notes on the E-flat clarinet could grate upon ungrateful ears.”
Rule of the Plowman
“Certain notes on the E-flat clarinet could grate upon ungrateful ears.”
Walt’s Ratatouille 7.
Hard on the instrument and on the players, Beethoven’s piano-four hands transcription of his Grosse Fuge is also hard to find.
Walt’s Ratatouille 7.
Hard on the instrument and on the players, Beethoven’s piano-four hands transcription of his Grosse Fuge is also hard to find.
Random Noise 9: Philip Glass as Culture Meter, etc.
The music lover for whom classical’s multi-century inventory occupies the core of his interests thinks of present-day pop, that gallery of calculated oddities, if he thinks of it at all, more or less dismissively.
Random Noise 9: Philip Glass as Culture Meter, etc.
The music lover for whom classical’s multi-century inventory occupies the core of his interests thinks of present-day pop, that gallery of calculated oddities, if he thinks of it at all, more or less dismissively.
End-of-the-Year Ramble
This is an exciting discovery. In terms of significance, Gérard Pesson’s opera Forever Valley belongs with Sciarrino’s Luci mie traditrici and Lachenmann’s Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern.
End-of-the-Year Ramble
This is an exciting discovery. In terms of significance, Gérard Pesson’s opera Forever Valley belongs with Sciarrino’s Luci mie traditrici and Lachenmann’s Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern.
A Tebaldi Memory
My clearest memory of Renata Tebaldi traces back to a La Bohème in the Dade County Auditorium on a Saturday night in 1959.
A Tebaldi Memory
My clearest memory of Renata Tebaldi traces back to a La Bohème in the Dade County Auditorium on a Saturday night in 1959.
To Stand or Not to Stand
What takes priority, the audience’s desire to follow a tradition, or the chance to hear unimpeded the music’s every bar?
To Stand or Not to Stand
What takes priority, the audience’s desire to follow a tradition, or the chance to hear unimpeded the music’s every bar?