Critic-at-Large Moe offers his painterly image to wish everyone a happy holiday season. It's the most wonderful deadweight loss of the ...

Reviewing the Musicians of the Old Post Road. Boston Globe , December 23, 2008. A nice little musical pun from this one: in Telemann's A...

I am proudly and incurably a Puccini addict. There's not many other composers that combine such a lush surface with so many arresting, i...

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Hanukkah started tonight at sundown. Spin that dreidel! Here's a recipe I was absolutely going to test and photograph—gefilte fish as p...

The significance of language struck [Richard] Wrangham most forcefully on an occasion when a group of [Mbuti] hunters had killed an elephan...

Reviewing pianist Paavali Jumppanen. Boston Globe , December 16, 2008. Published, I notice, on Beethoven's birthday—it's weird to ha...

Reviewing Boston Baroque's Messiah . Boston Globe , December 16, 2008.

Martha Fuchs as Octavian in the Berlin Staatsoper production of Der Rosenkavalier , 1937 Main train station, Frankfurt am Main, June 1988. B...

Don Rosenberg, the Cleveland Plain Dealer critic who, a few months ago, was rather infamously reassigned for being allegedly too hard on th...

Elliott Carter being interviewed by Charlie Rose, December 10, 2008. Rose asked Carter if there were times in his career when he felt a sens...

Just saying Olivier Messiaen's name is exceptional. Thomas Grubb's textbook Singing in French includes an appendix in which he cros...

Guerrieri: Be We Mery in This Feste (PDF, 163 Kb; not terribly subtle MIDI here ) Here's a nice, crunchy, part-of-this-balanced-breakfa...

The composer in Cambridge: Carter looks back. Interviewing Elliott Carter. Boston Globe , December 5, 2008. I ended up with way more materi...

I'm beginning to sense a pattern at the Metropolitan Opera. Literally. The photo wall they've put up in the lobby for the 125th Anni...

I can't go, but you can: tonight at 7:30, head over to Smith Hall at Harvard Hillel and you can hear Daniel Barenboim chatting with Mic...

Reviewing the Florestan Recital Project. Boston Globe , December 3, 2008.

Reviewing the Laurel String Quartet et al. Boston Globe , December 2, 2008. The Carter centenary is accelerating into the homestretch. I fee...

A netting of scuttlebutt: Announcing the YouTube Symphony Orchestra . Upload a video of yourself playing a newly-commissioned piece by Tan D...

A thank-you to Michael Prager for, in today's Boston Globe , considering this to be one of the "sixty-four websites on Boston lif...