Classical

Speaking of the rat race, I got caught up in it myself last night, waiting over an hour at the […]

I woke up this morning just in time to hear an interview on WNYC with Gene Weingarten, the Washington Post

Anthony Tommasini has a piece in today’s Times about the ongoing search for Lorin Maazel’s successor at the Philharmonic, written

While Esa-Pekka Salonen may be hogging the headlines among conductors these days, another Finn, Sakari Oramo, has been quietly making

OK, I realize this is off my usual NYC beat, but the news that Esa-Pekka Salonen will leave the L.A.

Growing up Catholic, I was always turned off by the music in church, which was either plain, dull, or just

When I started Feast of Music a little under two months ago, I really had no knowledge of the New

Time is short and events (after work) are long, so just a quickie about the Wordless Music concert this past

IN the beginning – before Bruckner, before Beethoven, before even Bach – there was Liturgical Music. The core devices of