Classical

  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

'Tis the season for holiday music in New York, with all the major arts institutions around town putting their usual offerings on the shelf in favor of the same old

  I like Schoenberg. And I like Philip Glass. But, when you pair Glass' own arrangement of his 3rd symphony with Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht for string sextet – as the Glass Chamber

(photo by Hiroyuki Ito, New York Times) Now that Esa-Pekka Salonen no longer has a full-time conducting gig (he's still the Principal Conductor of London's Philharmonia Orchestra, basically a part-time job,) he