Classical

Believe it or not, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart is 45 years old this year. For most of that time, the festival was a largely forgettable exercise, the province of the old […]

How is it, exactly, that Cleveland – home to Drew Carey, Slyman's and Lolly the Trolley – gets to have the best orchestra in the U.S.?  That's what I find

The Cleveland Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall with Franz Welser-Möst after Bruckner's 8th Symphony, 7/16/11.  Franz Welser-Möst Cleveland Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall after John Adams' Doctor Atomic Symphony, 7/17/11.  John Adams

The Cleveland Orchestra with Franz Welser-Möst and John Adams after Guide To Strange Places, 7/13/11.  The Cleveland Orchestra with Franz Welser-Möst after Bruckner's 5th symphony, 7/13/11.  Franz Welser-Möst, John Adams and Leila Josefowicz after Adams'

The classical music event of the summer is coming to Avery Fisher Hall this week, with the Cleveland Orchestra and their music director, Franz Welser-Möst performing four concerts in five days as part

The grave of Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen in the Eglise Saint-Theoffrey, overlooking Lac de Petichet and Le Tabor. (See here and here for notes on my Messiaen trip through Paris,