Classical

I’m a bit too young to have met Olivier Messiaen while he was still alive, but the Messiaen Discovery Concert in Weill Recital Hall Sunday afternoon brought the man many

(Well, "live" as in via the PBS website, which is streaming video of the concert.) 4:08am: The Philharmonic has taken the stage, and is playing both the North Korean and

For all you night owls, the New York Phil’s "historic" concert from Pyongyang, North Korea will be streamed live tonight on the WNET website, starting at 4am EST. Apparently, the

I wish I could have brought along some of my hip(st)er friends on my L-train journey last night. The Juilliard String Quartet may not be the hippest bunch of musicians

8-945p: The Juilliard Quartet at the Peoples Symphony Concerts, 16th & Irving. Program: Haydn’s Op.86, No.6, Verdi’s Quartet in E Minor, and the devastating Shostakovich Quartet No. 13. Price: $9.

The second of the St. Louis Symphony’s concerts last weekend at Carnegie was full of dark, somber music: Brahms Tragic Overture, Berg’s Violin Concerto (with the formidable Christian Tetzlaff), and

I got a healthy dose of conductor David Robertson’s pedagogic prowess last month at the Concrete Frequency festival in L.A., where he offered straightforward, humor-laced intros to works by Berio,

Going to see a concert in Central Europe is generally a more sociable, more amiable experience than it is here in America. In Prague, for example, everyone dresses up –