Odd Couple
I was back at Carnegie on Friday to hear Pierre-Laurent Aimard for the second night in a row, this time playing […]
Classical
Counterpoint
I'm not exactly sure what Pierre-Laurent Aimard is trying to prove at Zankel tonight by alternating the even, contrapuntal tones
Lukas
On Sunday, composer, conductor and pianist Lukas Foss passed away at the age of 86, at his home here in New York.
Mean Fiddler
Forget Perlman, forget Bell, forget Jean-Luc Ponty: for my money, the best violinist I've ever seen is a diminutive
Quotable
"All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din…Someone is trying to make music somewhere with a pair of
Quotable
“I first heard it at Carnegie Hall when I was 15 or 16. More than half the audience walked out
Tough Times
It's not the happiest of times in the rarefied world of big-time music, as these recent announcements can attest. Ticket
Three-Out-of-Four Ain’t Bad
Last night, I was swayed by this week's NY Phil program of 20th Century French works to make my first
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