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Making Beethoven Personal Some ways to make Beethoven personal -- in answer to a conductor's question....
Greg Sandow | 05/07/08@02:40PM

Clone me! Or: TiVo for live performance Lots of convention-free, jazz-propelled music in NYC, again and still, this weekend...
Jazz beyond Jazz | 05/07/08@07:40AM

Orchestras are museums? Many people defend orchestras with this comparison. But it won't work. Museums live far more in the present than orchestras...
Greg Sandow | 05/06/08@12:48PM

Challenge to opera Can realistic operas can still be written? A monologue in a recent film -- powerfully musical, just as speech --...
Greg Sandow | 05/05/08@01:19PM

Bringing Out The Inner Child Rachel Portman's opera adaptation of The Little Prince receives its west coast premiere....
lies like truth | 05/04/08@05:46PM

Harvey Sachs' New ArtsJournal Blog Jokes. Is this an intelligent way of attracting more people - especially younger people - to classical music? I don't...
Overflow | 05/04/08@02:17PM

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...
On the Record | 05/02/08@09:49AM

The envelope, please The cast and production team for "The Letter," the opera I'm writing with Paul Moravec, was announced today in Santa...
About Last Night | 04/30/08@03:22PM

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"...
Rifftides | 04/29/08@04:06PM

Jazz in the Ural tradition A saxophonist who throat-sings, too...
Jazz beyond Jazz | 04/28/08@11:37AM

Jimmy Giuffre In the 1950s, the low-register intimacy of his clarinet was one of the most identifiable sounds in jazz....
Rifftides | 04/28/08@08:16AM

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...
On the Record | 04/28/08@07:28AM

A day in my life And it culminates with an explosive link between Verdi and Bob Dylan....
Greg Sandow | 04/26/08@05:23PM

Henry Brant (1913-2008) The great composer of radically spatial music died today....
PostClassic | 04/26/08@03:45PM

Dealing With Butterflies Two tips on dealing with pre-performance nerves if you're not used to singing in public...
lies like truth | 04/25/08@06:27AM

A pair of hats Making art--and a biography is a work of art, more or less--is a strange sensation....
About Last Night | 04/24/08@03:49AM

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....
Rifftides | 04/23/08@09:32PM

Wynton's Abyssinian Mass A guest blogger hears the sacred and secular come together...
Jazz beyond Jazz | 04/23/08@04:22PM

Bravo! Juan Diego Florez sings high C's at the Met, and live audio shows up on the New York Times website....
Greg Sandow | 04/23/08@07:33AM

The Bayreuth Succession Saga Another view of the drama currently playing itself out in the latest proposal as to who shall succeed Wolfgang Wagner....
Rockwell Matters | 04/22/08@02:40PM

Recent CDs: Mare Nostrum music that can transport listeners into dreaminess unless they are concentrating on the depth of its inventiveness....
Rifftides | 04/22/08@10:54AM

Progress report Yesterday I finished writing the next-to-last chapter of my Louis Armstrong biography....
About Last Night | 04/21/08@09:09PM

Old masterworks In my vision of classical music's future -- in which it's one again a central part of our culture --...
Greg Sandow | 04/21/08@07:32PM

Radical idea What would classical music be like, if it weren't separated from the rest of our culture, and had no worries...
Greg Sandow | 04/21/08@07:32AM

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...
Greg Sandow | 04/19/08@10:03AM






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