Monodramas @ NY City Opera, 3/31/11
I was back at NY City Opera for the second night in a row last night to see "Monodramas": a set of three one act music dramas for single female […]
Opera
Stravinsky Under Water
Opera returned to the stage of BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House Tuesday night with the Canadian Opera Company's production of "The Nightingale and other Fables": a collection of short songs and
My Top 20
Oh Lordy. These days, The Times seems keen on lobbing up fungos to hit out of the park of musical debate. First, there was the ill-advised critics roundtable/gripe session surrounding this past
Pelléas et Mélisande
"Sometimes, something really great can happen when people understand something together and you know it couldn't have been any other way." Sir Simon Rattle on the Charlie Rose Show, 12/16/10
City Opera: Intermezzo
Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to attend City Opera for the first time this season to see a performance of Richard Strauss' Intermezzo: a two-act comedy of manners about
Solomon and Joan
While I was busy flitting around ACL yesterday, we lost two of the most extraordinary singers of the 20th Century: Solomon Burke – "The King of Rock and Soul" –
Vienna Phil @ Carnegie This Weekend
(Zubin Mehta with the Vienna Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, March 2009) The new fall season is upon us, with the NY Phil opening it's season last week with Wynton Marsalis' new
FoM in Deli Magazine
My new friend Nora over at i rock i roll included FoM in her lineup of emerging NYC Music Blogs in this quarter's Deli Magazine, available now at finer record
R.I.P. Charles Mackerras
“If I am to be remembered for anything, then it will probably be for Janacek. Nobody needed me to say that Mozart, Haydn and Handel were great composers, even if