Outside Time
"I offer to you all the transports of love and joy, the ecstasies, raptures, revelations and heavenly visions of all the holy saints…" St. Thomas Aquinas (from Livre du Saint Sacrament) […]
Classical
Love Those Lists
I'm not typically a fan of lists, but Gramophone's newly-released list of the Top 20 orchestras is the world is worth a gander, if only for pure amusement. The top
The First MTV
Take your pick: Lenny as New Yorker. Lenny as Social Activist. Lenny as TV Star. Carnegie's Bernstein Discovery Day had all three on Saturday. And, they could have easily squeezed in half-a-dozen more
Make It A Superfecta
On my way back to Brooklyn, I ran into this dude at Union Square Station, who somehow managed to haul an upright piano all the way down to the platform.
Saturday Trifecta (pt. 2)
Tonight, I paid my first visit this season to the People's Symphony Concerts, where the Washington Irving High School Auditorium was packed for a concert by the Juilliard String
Saturday Trifecta (pt. 1)
What better way is there to spend a rainy autumn Saturday in New York than listening to music? The live kind, that is… After spending the early afternoon at Carnegie
The Best
“(Toni Morrison) is the best writer in America. Jazz, for sure; but also Mozart.” — John Leonard (1939-2008)
Return of the Heavy Organ
Once upon a time, organists seemed on the verge of a musical revolution. In the 70's, Virgil Fox used to hold rock-style "heavy organ" concerts with psychedelic lights and smoke machines, and
Mess of Masses
Two masses in three days is a bit much for any secular being, but I made my way down to Trinity Church last night to hear the Bach Mass in