Reviewing Evgeny Kissin. Boston Globe , April 23, 2013.

Reviewing the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Boston Globe , April 15, 2013.

Reviewing Stile Antico. Boston Globe , April 8, 2013.

Reviewing Jonathan Biss. Boston Globe , March 25, 2013. Incidentally, to the guy who stomped the end of Davidsbündlertänze into the ground ...

Трудно высказать и не высказать Все, что на сердце у меня. It is hard to express, and hard to hold back, Everything that is in my heart. —Mi...

Reviewing Gil Shaham and Akira Eguchi. Boston Globe , February 12, 2013.

Catching up on some recent reviews, since, now that I finally took down my festive holiday tree, I have to take it down from the blog, too. ...

arr. Guerrieri: Still, Still, Still (2012) (PDF, 191 Kb) This year's holiday card is a two-voice-and-piano arrangement of one of my fa...

Over at NewMusicBox , critic-at-large Moe gets into the spirits of various seasons.

I'm traveling this week, so I'm a day late on a couple links. Over at NewMusicBox this week, I consider the composer's relation...

Reviewing the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. Boston Globe , November 20, 2012.

I have a couple of First-Four-Notes -related articles up this weekend: On Beethoven's Fifth and other warhorses. Boston Globe , November...

Reviewing the Cantata Singers and Ensemble. Boston Globe , November 12, 2012.

The American Music of Elliott Carter. A composer of the American experience. Boston Globe , November 11, 2012. The image is from Carter...

Reviewing Boston Lyric Opera's Madama Butterfly . Boston Globe , November 5, 2012.

For All Saints' Day, a chance to remember past articles that I was too lazy to link to: Reviewing Sound Icon. Boston Globe , Octobe...

The best thing about a Schoenberg O'Lantern? With the lights on, it looks like a Schoenberg self-portrait: Update (10/31): Arnold guar...

PERMISSION GRANTED. BUT NOT TO DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. —John Cage, "Seriously Comma" (1966) One of the dilemmas of mental life is th...

Reviewing Donald Crockett's The Face . Boston Globe , September 3, 2012.

Because it has been a summer of STUFF and TASKS I have gotten dangerously lax about keeping up with even my own output. Some items you might...