THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
Here’s a news item I’d love to see: WARNER APOLOGIZES FOR BARENBOIM SCHUMANN CYCLE New York, February 4, 2004. The president of the AOL/Time Warner
THE CLASSICS ARE DEAD, LONG LIVE THE CLASSICS!
A few months ago I took Norman Lebrecht to task for his editorial announcing the death of the classical record industry. So far the industry
Let’s Just Say Bach Wrote It
Cleaning Up the Universe of Classical Music Organists aside, does anyone really care about Baroque organ music? I say this not to denigrate the period
Carlos Kleiber Is Dead, But For How Long?
The death of Carlos Kleiber on July 13 at the age of 74 brings to a sudden end the sporadically active career of one of
The Classical Olympics: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Another four years and another summer Olympics, not entirely without controversy, have come and gone. Amidst the hoopla and hysteria, this seems an appropriate time
Stop the Madness: Orchestras, Stay Home
The new concert season is now upon us, and with it will come one of the most peculiar spectacles in the arts: the annual round
BACH AND HAYDN SPEAK OUT ON TERRI SCHIAVO
The ongoing, tragic saga of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged Florida woman struck down by catastrophic illness in 1990 and subsequently determined to be “in
TIMES HAVE CHANGED, SO HAVE WE
Every so often I see a comment to the effect that, believe it or not, we are too nice, and give too many recordings high
THE EU CONSTITUTION AND THE ARTS
Thank God it’s dead! Granted, the French and the Dutch voted “no” to the proposed EU constitution for the wrong reasons, but then who had
THE DEATH OF THE HORENSTEIN CULT?
It’s well known that performers of all stripes, and not just in classical music, sometimes amass a cult following, particularly if the artists in question