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Fine Whine From Stormin’ Norman Redux

Originally posted at the beginning of 2004, this seems like a good time, nearly fourteen years later, to revisit Norman Lebrecht’s “rock solid” prediction that

Music Criticism: 1950-2000 (Day 2)

Barcelona: October 10, 2017 Conference Organized By:  Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca and the Societat Catalana de Musicologia, Barcelona Day Two of the conference on

CONFERENCE REPORT: MUSIC CRITICISM 1950-2000

Barcelona: October 9, 2017 Conference Organized By:  Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca,  and the Societat Catalana de Musicologia, Barcelona This is the final conference is

A Remarkable New Toscanini Biography

Harvey Sachs: Toscanini, Musician of Conscience (Liveright Publishing Corporation [W.W. Norton], 2017). Arturo Toscanini was a simple man at heart. He had three great passions:

Salonen Conducts the MET Orchestra in Mahler, Off and On

Wednesday, May 31, 2017: Carnegie Hall The MET Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor; Susan Graham, Mezzo-Soprano; Matthew Polenzani, Tenor All-Mahler Program: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Symphony No. 1 Esa-Pekka Salonen