Feast of Music

A Worthy Companion

'Tis the season for holiday music in New York, with all the major arts institutions around town putting their usual […]

I like Schoenberg. And I like Philip Glass. But, when you pair Glass' own arrangement of his 3rd symphony with

Sometimes, the day job has its perks: thanks to some folks I do business with, I was invited on

(photo by Hiroyuki Ito, New York Times) Now that Esa-Pekka Salonen no longer has a full-time conducting gig (he's still

I've just learned the sad news that Liam Clancy, the guitarist and last surviving member of The Clancy Brothers, died

Music was hardly the focus of this year's Art Basel Miami Beach: the annual bacchanal that brings virtually the entire

After a day of browsing the countless art fairs of Art Basel, this pretty much sums up my feelings at

Some of you may remember my visit to Pop Montreal in October, where I discovered this art installation based on

The local critics have been fawning all over the Met's new production of Janáček's From the House of the