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, […]
It must bug the bejeezus out of the big-budget U.S. orchestras to hear over and over again that The Cleveland Orchestra – long regarded as one of the Big Five
The Cleveland Orchestra Returns to Carnegie Hall with Mozart and Shostakovich Read Post »
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
Back in the U.S.S.R.: Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Seong-Jin Cho with the NY Philharmonic Read Post »
by Pete Matthews (in Cleveland, OH and Pittsburgh, PA) Despite being several generations removed from their industrial heyday, both Cleveland and Pittsburgh punch well above their weight when it comes
by Pete Matthews While I will always and forever cherish my summers seeing the Boston Symphony Orchestra up in their summer home at Tanglewood, it's always a treat (not to
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As I learned when I was in Copenhagen last year, the Danes are really good at music. Count among them the Danish String Quartet, three of whom – violinists Frederik Øland
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I will never forget the first time I attended the New York Philharmonic's annual free Memorial Day Concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. It was 2001, and Kurt Masur – who began
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by Michael Cirigliano II Photo credit: Ruby Washington, The New York Times For their first program of the new season at Carnegie Hall, the Orchestra of St. Luke's presented dynamic
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by Robert Leeper Photo credit: Ken Howard There are a lot of big-ticket, big-cast operas to sift through at the Metropolitan Opera these days. However, tucked between the much-touted Two
Shostakovich’s The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera Read Post »
