I finished a piece last night—a short song cycle on a few of Sandburg's "Chicago Poems"—and already this morning my peripateti...

Now this looks like serious fun. "PLAY.orchestra" is an outreach project by the Philharmonia Orchestra over in the UK. They'...

The New York Times reports today that the Metropolitan Opera , realizing that it's almost the 1980's , for gosh sakes, has unveiled...

...or, "A Typical Monday." (From "The Opry House" , 1929.)

I'm playing a wedding this weekend. It's the first wedding gig I've had in a couple years, and I realized this morning that I...

A couple things: Mea culpa: Mere hours after I asserted that only classical music fans make a fuss when their radio station changes format...

Every now and again, I feel a faint regret that I decided on a career in music rather that corporate finance or something like that. I'm...

An interesting story via the BBC's "Newshour" this morning: some Britons are concerned that immigrant British Muslims are in...

Driftwood: Well, I uh, I want to sign him up for the New York Opera Company. Do you know America is waiting to hear him sing? Fiorello: We...

In which Moe, our critic-at-large, reviews what's on Matthew's record player. Aretha Franklin: Soul '69 Glenn Gould: Arnold Scho...

In case you didn't know, our local paper here, the Globe , has started running blogs on its entertainment site . (I suppose it's goo...

Over at the Globe this morning, Richard Dyer seems to be in an unusually dialectical mood in reviewing a couple of last week's Tanglew...

Now and again, whenever I feel like my blood pressure's not high enough, it's fun to go read some of the blogs over at ArtsJournal....

...and I reserve the right to change my mind. The cheatin' hearts in this case belong to a smattering of members on the Nashville Metro...

August 10: Storm Tuileries Return Hector's record player

I was thinking about a piece of music today, and thought I'd procrastinate by trying to track it down. It was a piece my teacher in grad...

This was nagging at me, so I went back and re-read a bunch of last week's obituaries for Elizabeth Schwarzkopf. They're all about th...

The Globe reports on the replacement of the stage floor at Symphony Hall. In short: they're going to an awful lot of trouble, mainly be...

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