(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
by Nick Stubblefield New York Philharmonic with pianist Daniil Trifonov at Avery Fisher Hall The words "prodigy" and "virtuoso" get thrown around a lot, so when I arrived at Avery
by James Rosenfield Photo credit: Ian Douglas, The New York Times The superstars were out in force—at least a force of two—as Yuja Wang and Gustavo Dudamel shone from the Avery
by Angela Sutton The spirit of Rachmaninoff hung over the auditorium at 92nd Street Y on Saturday night, and not simply becuase his works appeared on the program. Pianist Olga
by Melanie Wong San Diego Symphony Music Director Jahja Ling has said, "We should never call ourselves a world-class orchestra . . . only other people will say what kind of orchestra we
by Melanie Wong PHILADELPHIA, PA — You’d be hard-pressed to find many American orchestras better than the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. Even with an average age of less than 22, the musicians—who
by Angela Sutton Photo credit: Fran Kaufman Marc Andre-Hamelin and his disciplined fingers came to 92nd Street Y on Wednesday night for a big program featuring music of the 20th century's
The Budapest Festival Orchestra—30 years old this year and still led by its ebullient co-founder, Ivan Fischer—is Hungary's leading cultural export and one of the most celebrated orchestras in the world.
