Music Review | Parker String Quartet : Classical Works in a Barâs Back Room
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The Parker Quartet, formed in 2002, when its members were students, is intent on reaching new audiences as it builds its career.
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Among the great pleasures of regularly attending concerts is the occasional encounter with a performance that far surpasses expectations. The concert by the Juilliard Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday did just that.
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The Chicago Sinfonietta performs a new work without the old warning.
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A number of performers are questioning the traditional expectations of chamber music, causing mixed reactions among the purists and the newcomers.
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Robert Bass and the Collegiate Chorale gave Ernest Bloch's âAvodath Hakodeshâ  a thoughtful, richly textured performance at Central Synagogue on Monday evening.
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A secret of Keith JarrettÂs triumph last year at Carnegie Hall sounds like a punch line: practice.
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On Saturday, the Tokyo String Quartetâs offered more the concept of a great quartet than the actual incarnation of one.
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Elliott Carter has touched on just about every musical format in his long and prolific career, but chamber music is where he has always seemed the most comfortable.
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Conducting the Tehran Symphony Orchestra requires some adjustments. Money is scarce. The female musicians wear headscarves. An old favorite such as Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 could mean criticism from conservative quarters.
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Reviews of works performed by Robert Weirich, Andrew Rangell and Lisa Bielawa.
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The attractionof the annual Christmas Eve performance at Carnegie Hall by the New York String Orchestra is in the spirit of renewal that has consistently animated these performances by this ensemble of students.
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The drummer Gregg Bendian paused to make a point about the usual parameters of jazz repertory at the Cutting Room on Thursday.
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In the age of the short attention span, classical music matters more than ever.
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Soprano Helen Dilworth and pianist Susan Grace joined forces on Dec. 7 at the Antlers Hilton hotel for a recital of vocal music.   The name of the final performance in the 2006 Shivers Concert series was "Ear Candy" -- a good title for this collection of short, emotionally direct pieces.
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The scene: A downtown art studio. Patrons swill martinis, sample hors d'oeuvres and consider the displays in chin-stroking contemplation. A normal gallery opening &#151; what's unusual is the art.
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Do not look for the Viennese soul in the waltzes of Johann Strauss. Try instead the dark places of Anton Webernâs Six Pieces for Orchestra or Alban Bergâs Three Orchestra Pieces, both played by James Levine and his Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Sunday.
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A picture caption last Sunday in the Evening Hours column reversed the identities of two guests at a dinner on Jan. 26 after the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestraâs debut at Carnegie Hall. The cellist Alban Gerhardt was second from right; the violinist Augustin Hadelich was at the far right.