Reviewing [nec]shivaree. Boston Globe , February 28, 2007. I'm paranoid about word counts, so I can never include all the players, but h...

Reviewing the Boston Philharmonic. Boston Globe , February 28, 2007.

The Hatto scandal may have stumbled to a premature close (Geoff Edgers has a nice summary in today's Globe ), but the thievery bug seem...

PHILADELPHIA, February 26, 2008—Saying that "nobody conducts the music of dead white males like a dead white male," Philadelphia O...

All right, I think it's time to get organized. One of our local classical stations, WCRB, is having an online poll to find Boston's...

Hey, if you tune into WGBH right now (89.7 FM in Boston, streaming on the Web here ), you can catch today's live Boston Symphony concert...

What with all the plagiarism this month, it seemed like a good time to revisit one of the most plagiarized composers of all time—at least i...

A profile of Kaija Saariaho. Boston Globe , February 21, 2007.

Some things you might have missed while double-checking your Joyce Hatto CDs against your Liberace albums.... Anyone for a left-handed piano...

"Doing a Mozart"? According to Jordan Tate, author of The Contemporary Dictionary of Sexual Euphemisms , that's slang for a ho...

Barring any sudden revelations involving Riccardo Muti, a beautiful disaffected ex-KGB agent, and a briefcase full of uranium (TOTALLY MADE-...

Stay with me on this one. There's this company called LifeGem (based in Elk Grove Village, Illinois—if you're from Illinois, and yo...

In the wake of a fairly stupid list of 150 favorite American buildings that the AIA perpetrated (idiotic example: Louis Sullivan just barel...

This study reveals that the ultrasonic vocalizations of the mouse have the characteristics of song. Qualitatively, this is apparent directly...

One of the most common slams against modernism is that it's no good for love songs. I think that's nonsense, as long as your concept...

Reviewing the Borromeo Quartet. Boston Globe , February 13, 2007. For some reason I thought this wouldn't run until tomorrow. When it ra...

Reviewing Garrick Ohlsson. Boston Globe , February 13, 2007.

Hey, one of our favorite people here at Soho the Dog HQ picked up a couple of Grammys last light. Osvaldo Golijov's opera Ainadamar won...

I've been awfully busy today, so in lieu of a proper post, I set critic-at-large Moe loose at the Library of Congress. It's not like...

Live, from 1986, it's Philip Glass and his eponymous ensemble, appearing on a major-network sketch comedy show which shall remain unname...