Classical

 Considering the size of the city it inhabits (roughly 300,000), the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra can justly claim to being one of the best orchestras, pound-for-pound, in America, if not the […]

 I'll be in Pittsburgh, PA this weekend, visiting old friends and catching up on some of the cultural happenings – musical and otherwise – along the banks of the Three

 As someone who works in advertising, I've gotta say I'm not a fan of Carnegie's new branding campaign, which consists of slapping a big red C over everything they publish:

  Over the past fifteen years, I can't even count how many times I've seen James Levine conduct, both at the Met and the Boston Symphony. But, for all those performances, I've never

The best show in town this weekend? It's at Carnegie, Friday through Sunday. And, don't be put off by those list prices: if you're under 40, you can sign up

 I braved the snow on Saturday to make my way up to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the NY Philharmonic was holding the second of its' two debut performances as CONTACT!, the Phil's new,

 After work yesterday, I walked across Fulton Street to St. Paul's Chapel for a holiday concert by the Trinity Youth Chorus: a choir program for boys and girls between 5 and 18

  Holiday music and brass go together like Christmas and snow: you don't need one to have the other, but the two combined are just so much better. Fortunately for me, Trinity