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Making Beethoven Personal Some ways to make Beethoven personal -- in answer to a conductor's question....
Clone me! Or: TiVo for live performance Lots of convention-free, jazz-propelled music in NYC, again and still, this weekend...
Orchestras are museums? Many people defend orchestras with this comparison. But it won't work. Museums live far more in the present than orchestras...
Challenge to opera Can realistic operas can still be written? A monologue in a recent film -- powerfully musical, just as speech --...
Bringing Out The Inner Child Rachel Portman's opera adaptation of The Little Prince receives its west coast premiere....
Harvey Sachs' New ArtsJournal Blog Jokes. Is this an intelligent way of attracting more people - especially younger people - to classical music? I don't...
Artistic Policy: A Collaborative Product One of the really interesting issues that I keep coming across as I visit a wide range of symphony orchestras...
The envelope, please The cast and production team for "The Letter," the opera I'm writing with Paul Moravec, was announced today in Santa...
Emil Viklický: Ballads And More Viklický injects a suggestion of minor-key Moravian reflection even into major-key standards like "I Fall In Love Too Easily"...
Jazz in the Ural tradition A saxophonist who throat-sings, too...
Jimmy Giuffre In the 1950s, the low-register intimacy of his clarinet was one of the most identifiable sounds in jazz....
The Music Director's Place There has been a growing trend over the past ten or fifteen years, more prevalent in small or mid-sized orchestras...
A day in my life And it culminates with an explosive link between Verdi and Bob Dylan....
Henry Brant (1913-2008) The great composer of radically spatial music died today....
Dealing With Butterflies Two tips on dealing with pre-performance nerves if you're not used to singing in public...
A pair of hats Making art--and a biography is a work of art, more or less--is a strange sensation....
The Spirit Of Ben Webster Webster's use of breathy vibrato on ballads was a trademark and, to many listeners, one of his most endearing qualities....
Wynton's Abyssinian Mass A guest blogger hears the sacred and secular come together...
Bravo! Juan Diego Florez sings high C's at the Met, and live audio shows up on the New York Times website....
The Bayreuth Succession Saga Another view of the drama currently playing itself out in the latest proposal as to who shall succeed Wolfgang Wagner....
Recent CDs: Mare Nostrum music that can transport listeners into dreaminess unless they are concentrating on the depth of its inventiveness....
Progress report Yesterday I finished writing the next-to-last chapter of my Louis Armstrong biography....
Old masterworks In my vision of classical music's future -- in which it's one again a central part of our culture --...
Radical idea What would classical music be like, if it weren't separated from the rest of our culture, and had no worries...
Advice to publicists Some publicists who e-mail me don't seem to know how the Internet works. including some from major institutions! Plus some...