Reflections on Influence While Being Serenaded by Works Past and Present
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A modest, good-natured example of new-from-old appeared in the middle of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centerâs Sunday program at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
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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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The old and the new go head to head in the music of Charles Ives, but conflict may not be the right word to describe it.
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Since I fell for ballet during the 1970s, I find it gratifying once in a while to see what the master choreographers of that era were making by way of new ballets.
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New music is always plentiful in New York, if you look beyond the New York Philharmonic and the two big opera companies. But even that qualification may change soon.
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In some ways, one might regard the literary couples whose intimate relationships inspired Katie Roipheâs âUncommon Arrangementsâ as performance artists.
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Russell Braun as Figaro, the multitasking barber of Seville, at the Metropolitan Opera House. (Credit: Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times) Before I reveal the Figaro Factotum regimen for greater personal productivity, let me explain how it came about. Maintaining a blog while doing other things has reminded me of how bad I am [...].
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After almost a decade, the famed music composer is back doing what he does best -- making beautiful music.
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The orchestraâs performances at Carnegie Hall this week reminded listeners that character and distinctiveness in classical music have not been obliterated entirely.
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David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra gave an engaging, informative and unabashedly quirky demonstration of how to demystify a daunting contemporary work for the public.
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Three new CDÂs attempt to go beyond modern conceptions of piano sound to show, in various ways, what kind of music Mozart might have heard on his own instruments.
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Merce Cunningham and colleagues have presented a retrospective series of evenings about his choreography called âHistory Matters.â
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Could the selections be any more varied? One minute, the exhilarating sound filling my headphones was Maria Callas, reminding me why she was a diva. A moment later, I heard the Eagles' Hotel California. Before the listening session was over, I'd glided from the Beatles to Mozart to Chris Isaak to Thelonious Monk.
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A new study suggests that music conductors are less likely to divert their attention from what they are seeing when handling complex auditory tasks.
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Can digital musicians, artists and other media creators free themselves from the tyranny of popular software design? Commentary by Momus.
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In the age of the short attention span, classical music matters more than ever.
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An eclectic array of collaborators has given new life to the lyrics a folk trailblazer left behind. A rare concert recording has surfaced too.