Classical

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

I’m not religious in any traditional sense, but when I used to live on 109th St. and Amsterdam, there was no bigger day on the calendar than Easter Sunday at

I should have known better than to cut it close at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine this morning, after getting locked out of the Christmas Eve service in

Every Holy Week for the past six years, I’ve listened to Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s 2001 Teldec recording of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, one of the towering works of the repertoire. But,

I can’t remember ever having heard a more moving liturgy than tonight’s Good Friday Solemn Mass at St. Thomas Church, sung by the Choir of Men and Boys. The Passion

After four days suppliant to the rock gods of Austin, Holy Week comes as something of a relief. Tonight was Tenebrae at Trinity Church; tomorrow brings Bach’s St. Matthew Passion