Music historian Harold Pollack’s comprehensive biographies on American composers including Aaron Copland, Elliot Carter, Marc Blitzstein. This year he has…
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Where is music going, and where, for that matter, is history going ? Was the ground taken by the “Panzer…
Two ships, two dark and mysterious stories. Death. For all the German vs. French musical differences, the operas “The Flying…
“The objects of mundane everyday life are mixed with the artificiality and perfection of art. This has complexity, depth, and…
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2nd annual Pride Concert on June 3 was a triumphal event Saturday June 3 at the Kimmel…
The Monterey Jazz Festival on tour swung into Philadelphia April 8 for a concert night to remember, with veteran headliners…
In 1902, when Pelléas & Mélisande debuted, impressionistic painting had already come to a head. The impressionists had produced hazy…
The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Crossing premiered composer John Luther Adams “Vespers of the Blessed Earth” to an almost full…
“You will be dreamt by a jackal.” Years ago, when I first encountered the passionate black and white, mural-sized charcoal…
“I climbed into the world without a destiny.” Baba: The Life & Death of Stana–authored, composed and keenly directed…
Mozart may be the master of opera buffa. The current cast in LA Opera’s production of The Marriage of Figaro…
