Classical

Samuel Barber, who would have turned 100 years old yesterday, is probably the most under-appreciated composer America has ever produced.

  Gabe Kahane, who's appeared in these pages before, is used to playing rooms like Rockwood or LPR, where you can

  (Happy 332nd Birthday, Vivaldi.) 

 One of the very first posts I wrote for this site was in praise of a NYC visit by the

  Last Saturday, the Takács Quartet – one of the worlds great string ensembles, founded in Budapest in 1975 and now in

 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with the New York Choral Artists, The American Boychoir, Jill Grove, and Mariss Jansons, Cond.    

 I wasn't really hankering for another orchestra concert the day after seeing the PSO in Pittsburgh, but when James Levine

 Considering the size of the city it inhabits (roughly 300,000), the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra can justly claim to being one