Classical

Growing up Catholic, I was always turned off by the music in church, which was either plain, dull, or just simply amateurish. A few years ago, I came across the […]

When I started Feast of Music a little under two months ago, I really had no knowledge of the New York Music blogosphere, other than Alex Ross’ The Rest is

Time is short and events (after work) are long, so just a quickie about the Wordless Music concert this past Monday night. The Good Shepherd Church hosted an overflow house

IN the beginning – before Bruckner, before Beethoven, before even Bach – there was Liturgical Music. The core devices of the western musical tradition – polyphony, counterpoint, harmonic progression –

I was stuck in traffic coming in the Lincoln Tunnel last night, and so I had to hear the start of last night’s St. Louis Symphony concert from the foyer.

Barbes just keeps cranking out the aural magic. On Sunday night, I stopped by the back room by for the monthly Barbes Classical night, presented by the Concert Artists Guild.

I really wanted last night’s concert at Carnegie to be better than it was. And, on paper, it looked like it would be: the North German Radio (NDR) Symphony of

Today’s Times has a story by Vivien Schweitzer about Paul Jacobs, the 30 year old chairman of Juilliard’s organ program who, in his early 20’s, performed marathon concerts of the

Though the hall was less than half full, anyone who was at Carnegie last night enjoyed an unforgettable experience. I take back what I wrote yesterday: there is a difference