Politics is everywhere these days. Make one “false” step and you’re tarred and feathered without getting even a nanosecond to…
Music
What do we expect when we go to hear two repertory pieces played live, and is that expectation heightened when…
No, Hansel and Gretel is not a children’s opera per se, but it is an opera, and a production, you…
You’re alone in your room and hear music.You’re sitting in a room with other people and hear this same music….
We love to put people in boxes. She’s progressive, he’s conservative. This music is twelve-tone, that music is minimalist. But…
How do they do it? The Joffrey Ballet has two simultaneous gigs in LA: the Gluck opera, “Orpheus and Eurydice,”…
Philip Glass @ 80ish When “Music With Changing Parts” premiered in New York in1970 it was at once revolutionary, persistent,…
The Austro-Hungarian empire may have died long ago but its musical products are still alive and kicking. Vide the San…
What does one say about a concert dedicated to the dead, dying and those living with HIV/AIDS? What does one…
First performances create certain expectations, second performances create more, and third performances create even more, and when the third performance…
Good opera singers come and go but great ones are rare, and the Met remembered one of its best by…