Jenufa Live Now
The Met’s final performance of Jenufa is being broadcast right now. You can listen to it locally at 96.3FM, or online. I saw it last Tuesday, and I can only […]
Brave New World
(Photo of Rebekah Heller, basoonist, outside the New World Symphony’s home in South Beach.) Dan Wakin has a piece in tomorrow’s Times about the New World Symphony, America’s foremost training
Cheap Seats
This morning, a former co-worker in her early 20’s wrote me to say that she "hasn’t really had the chance" to attend classical music concerts since leaving college, where she
Hilary Hahn @ Carnegie
Last night, I went to see Hilary Hahn at Carnegie with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, a local chamber orchestra which plays an annual subscription series. It was a spur-of-the-moment
Brooklyn Next
BAM’s presenting a major music/arts festival this weekend and next in my favorite borough, highlighting "Brooklyn legends, emerging bands, and solo artists from Brownsville to Brighton Beach." You can read
Peter Sellars on The Crisis
Henry Fogel, the President of the American Symphony Orchestra League and the former President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has an occasional blog, On the Record, which offers an establishment
Minnesota Dreaming
Greetings online world! Finally, I’m sitting down to write my long-intended blog, on which I hope to post my impressions of some of the extraordinary musical happenings here in New