Sweet Sorrow
Last night, Alice Tully Hall was double-marked by a sense of passing. On the one hand, the Vermeer Quartet, the excellent Chicago-based ensemble that has played together for nearly 40 […]
Float Like a Butterfly…
I was persuaded to take time out from a busy week at work to attend City Opera’s Wednesday night performance of Madam Butterfly by two primary factors. One, was that
Saxophone Colossi
Not really sure what to expect from a group made up entirely of saxophones, I braved the Nor’easter and wandered down to Barbes Classical last night to catch Amsterdam’s Amstel
Goode Stuff
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,
Music in the Rat Race
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
Let the Hype Begin
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,
Finnish Fireworks
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
Kentridge’s Magic
Well, there’s good news and bad news concerning Belgium’s Royal Opera House production of The Magic Flute appearing at BAM through this weekend. The good news is that the opera,
L.A. Story
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