Classical

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I don’t make a habit of citing historical references on FoM, but this is one for the books: exactly fifty years ago today, pianist Van Cliburn won the First International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

A couple of weeks ago, posters started to appear around Park Slope advertising a concert of Bach’s "Goldberg" Variations, performed by American pianist Simone Dinnerstein. Dinnerstein, 34, lives in the

Anyone taking a peek ahead in the Concert Calendar may have noticed some events coming up at the end of May at various churches, opera houses and concert halls on

As noted previously, there are Olivier Messiaen memorial concerts happening all over the world this season, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The orchestral work that many