Immortal hand or eye

Reviewing the Boston Classical Orchestra.
Boston Globe, October 29, 2009.

Frenzy and frolic, strictly symbolic

Reviewing the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Boston Globe, October 28, 2009.

Orientation

Reviewing the Juilliard String Quartet.
Boston Globe, October 27, 2009.

I sit down and write a brand-new rhyme

Beethoven's early believers. The Transcendentalists' Ludwig Van.
Boston Globe, October 25, 2009.

What you hear is not a chorus. "Rapper's Delight" and the vestige of minstrelsy.
Boston Globe, October 25, 2009.

Updates in this space have pretty much dropped off the radar, haven't they? But at least I'm keeping busy. (The first article previews Chapter 4 of the ever-impending book; if I can get "Rapper's Delight" in there as well, I'll at least have reached new levels of expressive tangentiality.)

Noticeable absence

Reviewing the Boston Chamber Music Society.
Boston Globe, October 20, 2009.

Les adieux

Reviewing Ann Hobson Pilot and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Boston Globe, October 5, 2009.

Reviewing Frederica von Stade (and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa).
The Faster Times, October 4, 2009.