At my age – I somehow just turned seventy – it’s considered normal to wax “sentimental” and yearn for better times. Nostalgia: a cliché....

Gerstein had recorded a Gershwin album and wanted to know if I were interested in writing a note for it. I was more than interested. Not...

Photo by Marco Borggreve The highwater mark for Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera in recent decades was the 2013 Parsifal, handsomely...

Photo by Tom Wolff Sudip Bose, the superb music critic for The American Scholar (he is also Managing Editor), writes about PostClassical...

In 1866, a Munich newspaper reported that Minna Wagner, the recently deceased wife of the composer Richard Wagner, had lived in “direst...

Carnegie Hall, a few blocks downtown, is ideal for Bruckner, and I’ve heard a lot of it there. The conductors were Claudio Abbado, Daniel...

Setting aside PostClassical Ensemble, the guerilla DC chamber orchestra I co-founded fourteen years ago, the most exceptional American...

When a pianist plays the piano, when a violinist plays the violin, when a conductor conducts an orchestra, the performer channels music...

The timelessness of Winterreise, its limitless expressive parameters, tantalize singers to do something more. It has sometimes been...

Low and behold, C. L. O., age 83, now has his own blog.  The omniscient graybeard I had envisioned was at the time a young adult in his...

PostClassical Ensemble inaugurated its new residency at Washington National Cathedral with a World War II program – “Music in Wartime” –...

What kind of American was Arnold Schoenberg? In Los Angeles, a Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Germany, he adopted English as his primary...

Back in the thirties and forties, there were no American music historians to tell the story of American classical music. So the task fell...

Processing my exchange with Vladimir Feltsman, I find myself distracted by something I have long more or less ignored: the art of the...

Though as usual most of the feedback to my recent blogs comes via private emails rather than public responses, a flurry of interesting...

My exchange with Vladimir Feltsman about “quality art” versus “crap” was posted on youtube and elicited this response: “Two oldies...

I was chatting with Vladimir Feltsman last Spring about PostClassical Ensemble’s 2017-18 immersion experience, “The Russian Experiment,”...

The Age of Trump has rapidly changed the American cultural landscape in many ways. In the silo of classical music, there is suddenly a...

PostClassical Ensemble’s most recent WWFM “PostClassical” radio show is “Copland and the Cold War” – aired last Friday and now archived....

My frustrations with a recent performance of Brahms’ Violin Concerto sent me to youtube in search of something different: an act of...