Alexander Pushkin knew intimately the world of which he wrote in his novel-in-verse “Eugene Onegin.” He was raised by nannies…
Music
John Corigliano and Mark Adamo’s new Dracula opera, “The Lord of Cries,” which premiered at Santa Fe Opera on July…
New York Times reporters are now being trained to make strong impressions when they appear as experts on broadcast news…
Gertrude Stein used to say that ” the only thing that changes is what people are looking at “,which, given…
The Philadelphia Orchestra musicians are together again on the Verizon Hall stage in Philadelphia, in masks or positioned behind Plexiglas…
Musical transcriptions have been around for millenia, even before the medieval, baroque, classical, romantic, modernist and postmodernist periods of the…
Philadelphia Orchestra maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin returned to the stage with the orchestra after six months, on the day it was…
A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR: Please excuse the lateness of this piece but three versions of it that I wrote…
South-by-Southwest (a.k.a. SXSW) began in Austin, TX as a music festival in 1987, continuously expanding in the years since to…
Don’t think that the movies have exclusive title to making bio-pics. Opera has been at it for years. Donizetti set…
“A Thousand Thoughts, a thousand questions, mine, yours, ours, theirs, questions that perhaps open up things that definitive answers would…
Much has been made of the stylistic freedom composers now enjoy. The Gordian knot of the 12-note system has been…