You don’t have to be an alarmist to feel that things in 2024 are dangerously out of whack. And if…
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Where is music going, and where, for that matter, is history going ? Was the ground taken by the “Panzer…
A career retrospective of any artist, especially a ninety-five year old living American one, presents a variety of “issues “,…
New York painter Alex Katz turned 95 this July 2022 and is the subject of his first ever retrospective show…
What does being serious mean? Is it a long face which harbors the best of intentions? Or is it virtue…
The world is full of everything from good dates to bad dates, from good paintings to bad paintings, or as…
Gertrude Stein used to say that ” the only thing that changes is what people are looking at “,which, given…
Musical transcriptions have been around for millenia, even before the medieval, baroque, classical, romantic, modernist and postmodernist periods of the…
A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR: Please excuse the lateness of this piece but three versions of it that I wrote…
The Philharmonia has been called one of the best orchestras in the world and its principal conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen may…
Pianists and violinists are the prime donne of classical music so where does that leave Damascus, Syria-born clarinetist Kinan Azmeh…
Piano reductions of symphonies were a hard sell in the twentieth century and still are in our twenty-first century but…
We like to that think music is easy as pie. Composers hear it in their heads, write it down, have…
Director: Michael Mayer; Designer: Christine Jones; Costumes: Susan Hilferty: Conductor: Yannick Neet-Seguin; Chorus Master: Michael Palumbo; with Diana Damrau, Juan…