Who is the most under-rated 20th century American composer? In the wake of the month-long Bernard Herrmann festival curated by DC’s...

The NEH Music Unwound consortium, which most recently brought Dvorak’s New World Symphony to an Indian reservation, has been re-funded by...

Sisseton, in the northeastern corner of South Dakota, sits within a Dakota Indian reservation called Sisseton Wahpeton. The population –...

Last Sunday afternoon’s Vienna Philharmonic concert at Carnegie Hall began with a Valery Gergiev moment. Mounting the podium, he turned...

For the past decade I have enjoyed the privilege of regularly collaborating in “Dvorak and America” festivals with Kevin Deas, one of the...

A towering figure in twentieth century American music, Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975) has long been pigeon-holed as a “Hollywood composer.”...

Bernard Herrmann, whose film credits include Psycho, Citizen Kane, Vertigo, and (his most Romantically charged score) The Ghost and Mrs....

Sony’s new 50-CD compilation, “Vladimir Horowitz: The Unreleased Live Recordings 1966-1983,” is a startling exercise in candor three...

Processing a terrific performance of Sir Edward Elgar’s Piano Quintet at this summer’s Brevard Music Festival, I found myself pondering...

“Music Unwound” is an orchestral consortium supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It funds contextualized symphonic...

Though the Soviets had coaxed him with prospective commissions and performances, and with promises that he could continue to travel...

Gergiev’s Swan Lake is a distinguished musical achievement, but his Cinderella is something else: unique and unforgettable. His St....

My own harangues on this topic have long focused on two necessary educational opportunities: 1.It is high time that Music History be...

Freeman’s own career – presiding over the Eastman School, the New England Conservatory, and the Butler School of Music at the University...

To read the review, google: wall street journal affron metropolitan opera book review Also, if you were not able to access my recent Wall...

According to my Op-Ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, the Metropolitan Opera House — physically and metaphorically — signifies a notion...

Earlier this summer, Ivan Fischer came to New York with his Budapest Festival Orchestra to offer two memorable concerts of music by...

An abundance of evidence – written and recorded – suggests that from 1885 to 1939 the world’s foremost Wagner house, judged solely by the...

As concocted by myself and the Dvorak scholar Mike Beckerman, the Melodrama aligns text from Longfellow’s “The Song of Hiawatha” with...

Dvorak himself cited The Song of Hiawatha as a source of inspiration for his American symphony of 1893. Beckerman has closely studied...