What Price Glory? A Word on Music Directors
“Conducting has become the profession of a traveling salesman… A conductor has to stay put to educate an orchestra.” – William Steinberg (1899-1978) former music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony […]
Esa-Pekka Salonen
The New York Philharmonic Returns to Live Performance at The Shed
by Steven Pisano (All photographs by Steven Pisano) The year 2020 will be remembered as a vacuum in the New York City performing arts world for quite some time. For
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s “Foreign Bodies” at the New York Philharmonic
Photo: Chris Lee, NY Philharmonic When the New York Philharmonic reached out to Esa-Pekka Salonen several years ago to ask him to become an artistic partner, it was not, as
New York Philharmonic and Yo-Yo Ma Perform Salonen’s Cello Concerto
At the end of a momentous week at the NY Philharmonic, it felt only right to stop by David Geffen Hall on Saturday night for the orchestra's final concert before leaving
New York Philharmonic with Esa-Pekka Salonen and Leila Josefowicz
When Esa-Pekka Salonen left his post as music director of the LA Phil in 2009, he said that he wanted to devote more of his time to composing and guest conducting.
SubCulture Brings New Listening Room to NoHo
by Melanie Wong After a yearlong search for a vibrant space "where artists and audiences [can] connect," brothers and co-owners Marc and Steve Kaplan settled at 45 Bleecker Street, in the
Esa-Pekka Salonen Leads Masterful “Wozzeck” at Avery Fisher Hall
by Michael Cirigliano II Photo credit: Jennifer Taylor, The New York Times It’s nice to see that Alban Berg’s infamous 1922 opera, Wozzeck, hasn’t lost much of its shock value
Bartók in New York
When I visited Budapest earlier this month, the last stop I made on my way back to Vienna was Béla Bartók's residence, high up in the Buda hills. The house,