ANDRIS NELSONS, WHO BEGINS HIS FIRST SEASON AS MUSIC DIRECTOR OF THE BOSTON...
ANDRIS NELSONS, WHO BEGINS HIS FIRST SEASON AS MUSIC DIRECTOR OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN SEPTEMBER 2014, WILL LEAD THE ORCHESTRA AT CARNEGIE HALL APRIL 15, 16, AND 17, 2015, AS DETAILED IN...
View ArticleClassical music: Are super-high concert fees morally right or wrong? Do they...
By Jacob Stockinger Are artist concert fees — like those charged by tenor Placido Domingo (below top), soprano Rene Fleming (below middle) and violinist Itzhak Perlman (below bottom) — too high these...
View ArticleTranscending the Gloom Outside of St. Ignatius Loyola
Wednesday night the Choir and Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola rescued an otherwise gloomy and dismal evening with warmth and epic grandeur at their sonically superb home base, via an animated...
View ArticleIn witch we serve
Countless episodes of Oprah and other programs of that ilk have dwelled on stories of women living in denial about their relationships. Unsurprisingly, many operas also deal with this phenomenon, one I...
View ArticleRubin Institute for Music Criticism
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music is hosting the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism November 5-10, with a host of events at various places. I have some thoughts, which I'll try to get into a...
View ArticleAn Elder Communes with the Up-And-Coming
Beilman and Guarneri (Bertazzi photo) The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center dispatched the eminent and not-so-young-any-more pianist Gilbert Kalish along with two youngsters, violinist Benjamin...
View ArticleIntriguing Promise from Bassoons
Janet Underhill (file photo) The contemporary music ensemble ALEA III opened its 37th season at Boston University with a program dedicated to the bassoon, coordinated by and featured Boston-area...
View ArticleNew York City Live Music Calendar for November and December 2014
Updates continuing pretty much daily throughout the month: you might want to bookmark this page and check back to see what’s new. There’s a comprehensive list of places where these shows are happening...
View ArticleRomantic Bruckner (APO) & Opulence (NZSO)
I know I haven’t posted anything for a trillion years, so here it is, a double review of Auckland Philharmonia’s concert Romantic Bruckner (Nov 6) and New Zealand Symphony’s Opulence (Nov 6-8). I live...
View ArticleDo Harsh Environments Lead To Stern Gods?
“Religions with ‘moralizing high gods’ – that is, powerful supernatural beings that oversee human events and take an active interest in how humans are behaving – are more likely to be found in cultures...
View ArticleMusic for the Royal Fireworks, December 2014
Music for the Royal Fireworks Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra Thomas O’Connor, conductor Cármelo de los Santos, violin Sunday, December 28 at 3pm Monday, December 29 at 6pm St. Francis Auditorium, New...
View ArticleChoral Responses to War at a Great Basilica
Heinrich Christensen (file photo) The title given by the Seraphim Singers under by Music Director Jennifer Lester, to their Sunday concert, “The Short Twentieth Century,” appropriated the...
View ArticleYuja Wang Concert.
Leonidas Kavakos, violin, and Yuja Wang, pianist, perform at: Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium) Yuja Wang is one of today’s best-known young piano artists, and she teams up with Leonidas Kavakos to...
View ArticleSibelius and Brahms: A Discovery
BMInt staff photo Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra treated us to three works by Sibelius, followed by a “tiny, tiny” piano concerto from Brahms on Thursday evening at Sanders...
View ArticleNew York City Live Music Calendar for December 2014 and January 2015
A lot of people assume that December is a dead month for live music. That’s the Grinch talking! Lame-ass Grinch wants you to stay home away from all the fun. Lots of good things happening this month,...
View ArticleSetter's 'Spectives: Love's Got No Strings Attached in 'Humoresque'
OMG … I actually liked a movie with Joan Crawford in it! That film was Humoresque , which I watched for the first time on TV last night. Quite a fun, if melodramatic ride, centering on the love affair...
View ArticleBACH 101: Alpha and Omega
Johann Sebastian Bach is the alpha and omega of music. It’s one of the few things most musicians agree on. The question is whether to pay attention to the alpha part or the omega part. For many, he’s...
View ArticleEnsemble. Engrossing Performance
A few weeks ago I reported on the deep troubles of Rome 's Opera House , named Teatro dell'Opera di Roma Capitale: huge financial debt and deficit, major restructuring requested by various levels of...
View ArticleRemembering Solti.
The great conductor, Sir Georg Solti , was born on October 21st, 1912, and he died in France just before his 85th birthday. In my view, he was one of the all-time great Orchestra and Opera conductors...
View ArticleYuja’s Concert Tonight.
Tonight’s Yuja Wang concert! If you are a music lover, you owe it to yourself to make an effort to attend this concert. There is a huge range of music on this program. The compositional time frame is...
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