Chiara Quartet and Matmos @ LPR
A great set in front of a packed house Friday night at LPR with the Chiara Quartet playing Jefferson Friedman's haunting, dystopic 3rd string quartet (last heard during the Ecstatic […]
A New Ring
I first encountered Wagner's four-opera epic The Ring of the Nibelung in June 1990, when PBS broadcast the Met's then-new Otto Schenk production on four consecutive nights (as Wagner had originally intended.) It
Tenebrae
The Trinity Choir, performing the ancient rite of Tenebrae (including Allegri's Miserere), Trinity Church, 4/20/11.
The Power of Presence
Bucking the trend towards ever-younger music directors (see the LA Phil and the Philadelphia Orchestra), some may have considered the Chicago Symphony's choice of former Philly and La Scala maestro Riccardo Muti
Stepgaard
Tristan Perich and Lesley Flanigan – the "it couple," if you will, of the experimental electronic music scene – have been hosting parties in the apartment they share on East
Adams in Miami
Miami may not be the first place that comes to mind when people think of destinations for classical music. (Last weekend's Ultra Festival is probably more like it.) But, in
Chicago Symphony at Carnegie
Shame to spend such a nice day indoors, but having just heard Riccardo Muti conduct an impossibly grand performance of Liszt's Les Preludes, the sun is shining inside, too. Damn,