Unification
Nico Muhly penned a thought-provoking piece for The Guardian last week, making some very coherent ties between classical and popular music, an artificial divide he shuttles between with extreme fluidity. […]
Classical
Chi-town
Out in Chicago this weekend, primarily to see my alma mater, Notre Dame, lose their sixth game in seven. In search of a nightcap, I headed up to Clark Ave.
ACJW Ensemble
I didn’t pay a red cent for my first Carnegie concert of the season tonight, thanks to the generosity of the Subscribers Office, which handed out free tickets to hear
Miracle on 46th Street
"Sight, touch and taste cannot convince us; hearing alone ensures my faith." – St. Thomas Aquinas (from Part XII of Livre du Saint Sacrament) I honestly did not think it
It Won’t be a Wurlitzer
Several months ago, I wrote about Paul Jacobs, the 30-year old chairman of the Juilliard organ department, who had just been named to the 2007 William Schuman Scholar’s Chair, awarded
Reaching Out
"One of the biggest challenges of the future is for me the increasingly complicated search for ways of reaching out and connecting to those who have been cut off from
String Power
On my way home tonight, I stopped by the Tea Lounge in Park Slope for the debut of Tom Swafford’s String Power: a pickup band of eleven young string players,
A New Season
The second season of the Wordless Music Series kicked off last Friday while I was down in Austin, but I was fortunate to catch the series' first-ever Brooklyn show last
Headin’ For the Mountains
I will be on vacation next week, taking a road trip through Idaho, Montana and Wyoming with my friend Tom: a classmate of mine from ND and a fellow National