MASSENET'S 'GHOST' SEEN AT REHEARSALS ————— Singers and Stage Hands of the Paris Gaiete-Lyrique Swear They Behold an Apparition....

Reviewing Itzhak Perlman. Boston Globe , October 30, 2007. Concert and review preceded Game 4, but with the way the World Series was going, ...

A management consulting firm called Synectics came out this week with a publicity-stunt "survey" of the top 100 living "geni...

When O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder charges in 1995, the only people I talked to who weren’t surprised were friends in law school. O.J...

Reviewing the Arthur Berger Memorial Concert at NEC. Boston Globe , October 25, 2007.

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is easily impressed, if this interview is any indication: If you could sit down with one person fr...

Daniel Barenboim was at it again last week, announcing a plan for the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra , the Israeli-Palestinian youth ensemble...

Reviewing the Boston Philharmonic. Boston Globe , October 22, 2007. The Boston Philharmonic's printed programs include this bit of wishf...

One of [Virgil Thomson's] peccadilloes was dozing during concerts. When I was reviewing for the Sun we quite often were at the same con...

Sasha Frere-Jones has an article in the latest New Yorker that's been getting a fair amount of attention , in which he complains that ...

Reviewing Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Boston Globe , October 17, 2007.

(Click to enlarge.) Update (10/22): Robert F. Jones casts the movie in the comments .

More composer beer : Frank Zappa ale , celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release of Absolutely Free . (The same brewery has also rele...

So did legendary Italian film composer Ennio Morricone get dissed in Korea or not? Morricone was in the country last week to be honored at ...

Gustav Mahler, who we all thought died in 1911, is apparently alive and well and a graffiti artist, leaving tags all over Toronto . Ah, th...

Today's starting point is this Bloomberg News report on the efforts of the French piano manufacturer Pleyel to reposition themselves a...

From the dusty files of the Soho the Dog music library: Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" from A Midsummer Night's Dream . Wit...

Reviewing Boston Musica Viva. Bostton Globe , October 8, 2007.

By now, everyone in the opera world has absorbed the news that Charles Wuorinen is working on an opera based on Brokeback Mountain . I was ...

A trope we've cantillated more than once in this space is the notion that a piece of music takes on a life of its own and makes its own ...