Gallery Goldberg
Tim Lee, "Aria: Goldberg Variations" (2007), Cohan and Leslie Gallery, 3/5/08
Classical
Second Hearing
In case you missed last week’s broadcast, the New York Phil has put the audio of last week’s concert in Pyongyang, North Korea, up on its website. You can hear
Quotable
"Music is everywhere. It’s one of the currencies of being human." – Yo-Yo Ma "Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime isn’t enough for music." – Sergei Rachmaninoff
Meeting Messiaen
I’m a bit too young to have met Olivier Messiaen while he was still alive, but the Messiaen Discovery Concert in Weill Recital Hall Sunday afternoon brought the man many
Liveblogging the NY Philharmonic in North Korea
(Well, “live” as in via the PBS website, which is streaming video of the concert.) 4:08am: The Philharmonic has taken the stage, and is playing both the North Korean and
New Yorkers in North Korea
For all you night owls, the New York Phil’s "historic" concert from Pyongyang, North Korea will be streamed live tonight on the WNET website, starting at 4am EST. Apparently, the
It’s All the Same To Me
I wish I could have brought along some of my hip(st)er friends on my L-train journey last night. The Juilliard String Quartet may not be the hippest bunch of musicians
A Sat Night in Feb – Part 1
8-945p: The Juilliard Quartet at the Peoples Symphony Concerts, 16th & Irving. Program: Haydn’s Op.86, No.6, Verdi’s Quartet in E Minor, and the devastating Shostakovich Quartet No. 13. Price: $9.
Atomic Redux
The second of the St. Louis Symphony’s concerts last weekend at Carnegie was full of dark, somber music: Brahms Tragic Overture, Berg’s Violin Concerto (with the formidable Christian Tetzlaff), and