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Last week, Alex Ross, the great classical music critic of The New Yorker, offered a vivid recollection of a concert he saw back in 2004.He described it as…
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If you pay any attention to the music world, you already know that James Levine announced last week that he is stepping down as artistic director of the…
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I was talking to Rick Coffey the other day about Mendelssohn’s great oratorio “Elijah.” Rick, of course, is the music director of the Hartford Chorale,…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about chamber music.That’s mostly because a couple of weeks ago I celebrated my final concert as the curator of the chamber music…
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A quick early spring roundup of musical milestones from hither and yon.The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced that one of the four…
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The great Sir Peter Maxwell Davies – composer, champion of simple living, all-purpose contrarian – left us a few days ago.Max, as he invited nearly…
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On a hot August afternoon in 1966, I was driving down a residential street in my hometown of Niskayuna, New York.I was driving a demure little Ford Falcon…
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In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been to a half-dozen live musical performances.Among them:I heard the Sybarite5 string quintet play at the hip new…
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It’s wrong, I know, but I just can’t seem to quit the Grammy Awards show.Year after year I tune in, thinking that this time the folks in charge (it’s…
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Just to get this out of the way, “My Funny Valentine” is not among my personal favorite Rodgers and Hart tunes.I think it’s because when I was in my 20s,…