Have Some Honey With Your Haydn
Did you know that there are more than 300 types of honey produced in the United States alone? Amazing, I know. Honeybees are fascinating creatures,
Putting Conductors In Their Place: Sexual Harassment and the Death of the “Maestro Myth”
In the wake of an excellent article by Anne Midgette and Peggy McGlone in The Washington Post on sexual harassment in the classical music business,
Book Review: Furtwängler’s Writings–The Intellectual Biography of a Second-Rater
Roger Allen. Wilhelm Furtwängler: Art and the Politics of the Unpolitical. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2018 (286pp). Just how smart was Wilhelm Furtwängler? That he
MORE MUSICOLOGY FROM OVIEDO, PLUS A GUIDED TOUR
DAY 2. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: SYMPHONISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE Organized by:Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca; Research Group ERASMUSH, University of Oviedo (Oviedo, Spain) in collaboration with: Ad
Fascinating Conference and Concert from Oviedo, Spain
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: SYMPHONISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE Organized by:Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca; Research Group ERASMUSH, University of Oviedo (Oviedo, Spain) in collaboration with: Ad Parnassum. A
Major Discoveries at Carnegie Hall from The Orchestra Now
May 3, 2018, Carnegie Hall, New York The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein (cond.), Peter Serkin and Anna Polonsky, pianos Give Leon Botstein credit: as a
The Orchestra Now Offers Fine Free Concert
Aaron Davies Hall (The City College of New York), Harlem Friday, April 20, 2018 7pm Conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig The Orchestra Now, Bard College’s excellent ensemble
Editorial: Sexual Shenanigans, Classical Musicians, and Recordings
The first thing that came to mind as the story of James Levine’s, and then Charles Dutoit’s, sexual peccadillos came to light over the past
ARTISTS YOU CAN TRUST: 2017
TEN “ARTISTS YOU CAN TRUST” 2017 EDITION It’s common for review publications, newspapers, and radio stations to come out with “best of” year-end selections, but
The Orchestra Now and JoAnn Falletta: Youth and Agility
Thursday, December 14, 2017: Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York The Orchestra Now is another initiative of the indefatigable Leon Botstein, and part of