Classical

I have a hard time grasping that the last time I saw Seiji Ozawa was six years ago at Tanglewood, in his final concert as Music Director of the Boston

I'm off to Beantown to attend this weekend's Boston Symphony concerts, which mark Seiji Ozawa's first appearances at Symphony Hall since his departure in 2002 after 29 years as the

"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)

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

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

  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

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

“(Toni Morrison) is the best writer in America. Jazz, for sure; but also Mozart.” — John Leonard (1939-2008)