MONEY-BACK GUARANTEES FOR CLASSICAL CONCERTS?
This summer something very rare happened in the film industry. Faced with declining attendance, one of the country’s two major cinema chains offered a money-back
MOZART AT 250: DEJA-VU ALL OVER AGAIN
Both the music and the Austrian tourist industries are revving up for another “Mozart” year, only a decade and a half after the last one.
BYE-BYE TOWER (THANK GOD!)
The final, ignominious demise of Tower Records, auctioned off in bankruptcy to a liquidator for about $146 million, couldn’t have come quickly enough. For years
WILL THE REAL JOYCE HATTO PLEASE STAND UP!
On Tuesday, February 13, a CT.comreader, Mr. Brian Ventura (who kindly granted me permission to identify him by name) sent one of our writers, Jed
The Hatto Affair: A Victimless Crime?
It has been a bit more than a week since the news broke that many, if not all, of British pianist Joyce Hatto’s recordings for
THE HATTO AFFAIR: I DID IT FOR MY WIFE
How disappointing. William Barrington-Coupe, husband of Joyce Hatto and head of Concert Artist recordings, has (apparently) taken the easy way out. In a pathetic letter
SYMPATHY FOR THE SERIALISTS
It’s probably a truism to say that there are only two kinds of music: good and bad, but now that tonality is back in vogue
THE NY PHILHARMONIC: PLAYING WITH DICTATORS
There has been no shortage of juicy classical music news recently, starting with the death of German composer and space cadet Karlheinz Stockhausen. I was
Journalist Norman Lebrecht Dead at 61
Classical music’s prophet of doom has, at last, met his own demise. Spontaneous human combustion is a rare and controversial occurrence, but it has been
MINNESOTA SCORES KNOCKOUT WITH SIBELIUS’ KULLERVO
Carnegie Hall, New York; March 1, 2010 Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra brought the house down last evening. On paper the program did not