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Rough Ideas–Reflections On Music And More; Stephen Hough (Farar, Straus and Giroux; 2020) The Little Bach Book; David Gordon (Lucky

David Vernier April 11, 2021

Roger Allen. Wilhelm Furtwängler: Art and the Politics of the Unpolitical. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2018 (286pp). Just how smart

David Hurwitz July 7, 2018

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

David Hurwitz October 2, 2017

Henry Louis de la Grange (Oxford) April, 2008 Henry-Louis de la Grange’s fourth and final volume in his epic Mahler

David Hurwitz April 8, 2008

An Improbable Life: Memoirs by Robert Craft (Vanderbilt University Press) It’s about time that Robert Craft spent some time explaining

David Hurwitz October 23, 2002

W.W. Norton and Co. (599 pages; Hardcover) Harvard professor and eminent Bach scholar Christoph Wolff’s new book Bach: The Learned

David Hurwitz October 9, 2001

Mozart At Hallgrímskirkja
by David Vernier
June 5, 2023
Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland; May 21, 2023—The Reykjavik church known as Hallgrímskirkja, like most of Iceland unlike anything you’ve seen before, itself prepares you for experiencing
Simon McBurney’s Embracing “Flute” At The Met
by Robert Levine
June 5, 2023
Metropolitan Opera House, New York; May, 2023—If you’ve been to the Metropolitan Opera in the last 40 years to experience Mozart’s great Die Zauberflöte, you
“Death of Classical” Presents John Tavener Among The Tombs
by Robert Levine
May 29, 2023
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; May 26, 2023—Impresario Andrew Ousley’s “Death of Classical” continues apace. It is a quite marvelous concept wherein Classical Music and occasionally,