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Crumb at 90 Part II: Ghosts, Angels, and Music for a Summer Evening

By on April 17, 2019 in Concerts

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: April 16, 2019, Alice Tully Hall (New York City) All Crumb Program: The Ghosts of Alhambra (Spanish Songbook I) for Voice, Guitar, and Percussion; Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land) for Electric String Quartet; Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) for Two Amplified Pianos and Percussion […]

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Simone Young Shines in Mahler’s Sixth at the NY Phil

By on April 12, 2019 in Concerts

Friday, April 12, 11am, David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, NY It’s no small task to step in at the last minute and take over a symphonic megalith like Mahler’s Sixth, but conductor Simone Young did just that when New York Philharmonic Music Director Jaap van Zweden bowed out due to injury (I’ll bet you didn’t […]

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The Juilliard Quartet Shines at Alice Tully Hall

By on November 20, 2018 in Concerts

New York. Alice Tully Hall: November 19, 2018. 7:30pm Program: Beethoven: String Quartet in D major, Op. 18 No. 3; Beecher: One Hundred Years Grows Shorter Over Time;  Dvorák: “American” String Quartet This evening’s program featured the Juilliard Quartet in its latest incarnation, with new first violinist Areta Zhulla. Certainly the ensemble’s famed rhythmic precision […]

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Have Some Honey With Your Haydn

By on August 16, 2018 in Classical Gourmet, Editorials, Features

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, and while working my way through the wonderful world of varietal (a.k.a. monofloral) honeys that they produce, it occurred to me that there are some striking similarities between the sweet […]

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Putting Conductors In Their Place: Sexual Harassment and the Death of the “Maestro Myth”

By on August 2, 2018 in Editorials

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, Holland’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra announced that it had terminated the ensemble’s relationship with chief conductor Daniele Gatti. To its credit, the orchestra did not rely solely on allegations detailed in […]

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Book Review: Furtwängler’s Writings–The Intellectual Biography of a Second-Rater

By on July 7, 2018 in Books, Features, Reviews

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 was musically gifted there can be no question, but there is a significant difference between being talented and being intelligent. Similarly, one can be very highly educated—as a function of […]

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MORE MUSICOLOGY FROM OVIEDO, PLUS A GUIDED TOUR

By on May 11, 2018 in Features, Reviews

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 Parnassum. A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music Oviedo, Edificio Histórico de la Universidad de Oviedo 10-12 May 2018 Like most European cities and towns, Oviedo has its share of historic […]

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Fascinating Conference and Concert from Oviedo, Spain

By on May 11, 2018 in Concerts, Reviews

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 Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music Oviedo, Edificio Histórico de la Universidad de Oviedo 10-12 May 2018 Oviedo, Spain is a medium-sized city of some 240,000 persons, the capital of […]

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Major Discoveries at Carnegie Hall from The Orchestra Now

By on May 5, 2018 in Concerts

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 conductor he has his ups and downs, but his programming is often both important and original. At The Orchestra Now’s most recent concert he offered a pair of unknown (outside […]

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The Orchestra Now Offers Fine Free Concert

By on April 25, 2018 in Concerts

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 of graduate students, presented a very appealing program at a free concert up in Harlem this past Friday consisting of Vaughan-Williams’ gorgeous Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Schubert’s […]

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