Classical

There are more churches with major pipe organs in New York City than anywhere else in the country, some of which rank among the finest such instruments in the world.

For those who have been living under a rock for the past week, Pope Benedict XVI arrived in New York this morning, addressing the United Nations General Assembly in the

This blog has been, and always will be, about live music.  But, one of my favorite pastimes has always been spending a spare hour or two sifting through the bins

I don’t make a habit of citing historical references on FoM, but this is one for the books: exactly fifty years ago today, pianist Van Cliburn won the First International

You could be forgiven, passing through the Saturday night frolic of the East Village last night, for failing to realizing that one of the world’s great classical violinists was playing

Part one of my Friday evening is at St. Thomas Church hearing the Kings College Choir of Cambridge, England. Kings, whom I heard sing evensong five years ago in their

The Metropolis Ensemble, an upstart New York-based chamber orchestra that emphasizes the work of living composers as well as new interpretations of the familiar, played an ambitious concert last night