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- How Orchestras Can “Plug a Hole in the Curriculum”
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- North Carolina’s State-Wide Symphony
- Porgy and Bess Writ Small
- Restoring the drama to El Amor Brujo
- Siegfried at the Met
- Presenting Mahler’s Marriage
- Ives the Man
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- Something New and Necessary for Orchestras
- Schubert on the Trombone
- Interpreting Stravinsky (continued)
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- Bruckner and Religion
- Nixon in China at the Met
- What the embattled NEH does for education: a case in point
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- The Gershwin Moment (continued)
- The Greatest Vocal Recording of All Time, etc.
- The Detroit Symphony, Service Exchange, and “Full-Time” Jobs
- Re-Inventing Bernstein; Re-Inventing City Opera
- Rheingold, Boris, and Artistic Miscalculation at the Met
- The Singularity of Gershwin
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- Did Dvorak Compose “Deep River”?
- Swapping Horowitz for Arrau
- Reinventing the Orchestra: The Role of Education
- In the Ear of the Beholder
- Gershwin, Stravinsky, Harrison festivals
- The Uses of Culture
- Ligeti, the New York Phil, and finding stage directors for opera
- The NEA Music Critics Institute and a Cultural Sea Change
- Jeremy Denk and the Non-Russian Stravinsky
- Rehearing Stravinsky’s War Symphony
- Stravinsky, Self-Denial, and Self-Renewal
- One Reason Critics Matter
- Rescue Attempt for a Major Dance Work
- How Performable Is Verdi at the Met? — Continued
- How Performable is Verdi at the Met?
- Stravinsky, the New York Philharmonic, and Program Music
- The Nose, The Trojans, and Issues of Popularity
- The Stokowski Conundrum
- Rrecuperating from The Trojans
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- Reconnecting with Spanish Modernism — and The Problem of de Larrocha
- “Copland and the Cold War” on Campus
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- Why Memphis Matters to Every American Orchestra
- Looking Beyond the Cleveland Strike
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Recent Comments
Joel Lee on A Status Report on City Opera
Again, we go on and on about the acoustics at the NY State Theater. Why were there not criticisms...william osborne on A Status Report on City Opera
Small music theater requires entirely new concepts of composition, singing and staging. NYCO wants to create a new form...Chuck Lavazi on Dvorak and Hiawatha
The first time I heard the Largo of the Dvorak 9th (then called the 5th, which shows what a geezer...Robert Berger on Ives the Sophisticate
Interesting article, but your dismissal of the Sibelius 2nd as "banal" and "cliched" could not be more...Mark Stryker on Ives the Sophisticate
Joe, Insightful post, thanks. Interestingly, in a review I wrote a couple days ago about the four Ives symphonies played at...J. Theakston on The Greatest Film Score You’ve Never Heard
Must disagree with you on one point, Joe. Modern accompaniment for classic films (silent films excluded) is walking a...richard on The Met’s New Parsifal
I saw the performance of March 5, and your description of the brillance of this production rings true. At last,...Geo. on The Met’s New Parsifal
I saw the HD-cast of this production rather than in person, so obviously my perspective is limited that way. ...msirt on The Met’s New Parsifal
Ah ha! I finally "get" François Girard's final interpretive thrust for this rendition : Parsifal's words (paraphrase of the poem):...Sixtus Beckmesser on The Met’s New Parsifal
Thank you for this thoughtful and insightful appraisal. I was fortunate to have seen the HD broadcast on Saturday,...