Classical

Speaking of the rat race, I got caught up in it myself last night, waiting over an hour at the Verizon Wireless store on Union Square for a replacement phone,

I woke up this morning just in time to hear an interview on WNYC with Gene Weingarten, the Washington Post journalist who recently recruited Joshua Bell to play in a

Anthony Tommasini has a piece in today’s Times about the ongoing search for Lorin Maazel’s successor at the Philharmonic, written in the context of the recent goings-on in L.A. Frankly,

While Esa-Pekka Salonen may be hogging the headlines among conductors these days, another Finn, Sakari Oramo, has been quietly making waves of his own on concert stages across America and

OK, I realize this is off my usual NYC beat, but the news that Esa-Pekka Salonen will leave the L.A. Philharmonic in 2009 to devote more time to composing reminds

Growing up Catholic, I was always turned off by the music in church, which was either plain, dull, or just simply amateurish. A few years ago, I came across the

Time is short and events (after work) are long, so just a quickie about the Wordless Music concert this past Monday night. The Good Shepherd Church hosted an overflow house