After a couple of weeks out of town, I was back at Carnegie Hall last night to hear the Philadelphia Orchestra play a sold out concert with their principal guest conductor, […]
NY Philharmonic with Santtu-Matias Rouvali, 2/22/25. Pete Matthews Given all the highly-salivated publicity surrounding the NY Philharmonic's appointment of Gustavo Dudamel as its next music director, you might be
(Photo: Steven Pisano) "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." – Leonard Bernstein, November, 1963 In dark times
It's been three years since the vaunted Vienna Philharmonic has been to NYC – in pre-COVID times, they came here each year – but they'll be back this weekend with
The chamber orchestra is a unique musical animal, combining the fleetness of a string quartet with the power of a full symphony orchestra. Once the standard performance ensemble of the
by Caroline Sanchez Having only ever seen the New York Philharmonic in outdoor venues as part of their Concerts in the Parks series, I can technically call Saturday night’s concert
by Melanie Wong Photo credit: Michelle V. Agins, The New York Times Earlier last month, Nikolay Khozyainov (Russian winner of the 2012 Dublin International Piano Competition) gave his Carnegie Hall debut.
by Melanie Wong Last Saturday, pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet joined violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg for a performance at the 92nd Street Y. Both avid chamber musicians, Salerno-Sonnenberg
by FoM As much as I hesitate to admit it, the Phil is doing some good stuff these days. Last week, they had Mehta doing Bruckner 8; the week before
