Classical

  (Happy 332nd Birthday, Vivaldi.) 

 One of the very first posts I wrote for this site was in praise of a NYC visit by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra: the oldest orchestra in the world (founded

  Last Saturday, the Takács Quartet – one of the worlds great string ensembles, founded in Budapest in 1975 and now in residence at the University of Colorado – played the second

 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with the New York Choral Artists, The American Boychoir, Jill Grove, and Mariss Jansons, Cond.       Mahler's 3rd Symphony, Carnegie Hall, 2/17/10. (More pics below.) 

 I wasn't really hankering for another orchestra concert the day after seeing the PSO in Pittsburgh, but when James Levine and the Boston Symphony come to town, I can hardly keep

 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