For Tamás Vásáry (1933-2026)
Recorded at the International Piano Competition “City of Vigo”, 2018. Telegraph obit here.
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How to Get to Carnegie Hall: After 50 Years, the Colorado Symphony Returns with Itzhak Perlman
When you live in New York, where we’re spoiled by a never-ending stream of visiting international orchestras, not to mention
Pianist Unbound: Igor Levit Performs Variations by Beethoven and Rzewski at Carnegie Hall
This January, my musical cup runneth over. Just one day after hearing The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst dismantle symphonies
The Prague Philharmonia Bring Their Music – and Musicianship – to Carnegie Hall
Identity is an elusive quality among today’s symphony orchestras. Whereas orchestras were once home-grown, populated by players largely from within
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The Cleveland Orchestra Returns to Carnegie Hall with Mozart and Shostakovich
It must bug the bejeezus out of the big-budget U.S. orchestras to hear over and over again that The Cleveland
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A Pair of Pennsylvanians: The Philadelphia Orchestra at the Kimmel Center and the Pittsburgh Symphony at Carnegie Hall
Great music exists all over this country: from the northern plains, to southern California, and everywhere in between. Cross a
Ravel @150: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Plays the Complete Piano Music at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
“For me, (Ravel’s) music works the most when you do less.” – Jean-Efflam Bavouzet 2025 is the 150th anniversary of the birth
A Word About Women Conductors
Joana Mallwitz In perusing the schedule for my upcoming Tanglewood visit this weekend, I came across a name I wasn’t
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Gabriela Ortiz Widens the Scope at Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music
LENOX, MA – Amidst the whirlwind of activity last weekend at Tanglewood, it would have been easy to miss another,
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