Classical

Fall Preview

I'm not going to do this any kind of real justice tonight, but here's a quick rundown of some of the fall musical happenings where you can expect to find me over […]

Pub Music

I don't know if The Tavern section of Orff's Carmina Burana technically qualifies as bar music, but I'll go out on a limb and say the Philadelphia Orchestra (who played

Playing In The Rain

The rains came early for tonight's Wordless Music show at Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park, falling throughout the Renaissance choral works by Perotin and the first half of Manuel Gottsching's hour-long

Thoroughly Modern (Mostly) Mozart

   It's not every day that one gets to see the world's leading interpreter of contemporary vocal music from the third row, but that's where I had the good fortune to

Don’t Try This At Home

I can pretty much guarantee that I’m the only person at Tanglewood tonight wearing a bracelet from today’s Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. But, hey, that’s how I roll. An all-Brahms

Who’s Counting?

At some point during tonight’s performance of Sinfonia (1998), I found myself asking: how is a frail, diminutive, 99-year-old capable of such fierce, overpowering sounds? And, how is it that every time

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