All posts tagged "classical music"
Opera
Book Review: Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
October 4, 2025Perhaps, the best way of approaching Conrad’s book is to regard it primarily as a meditation...
Movies
Music Review: New York Philharmonic, “John Williams: A Night at the Movies”
September 26, 2025Judging by the audience’s response, the final item listed on the program was what many had...
Music
Music Review: New York Philharmonic, “Alan Gilbert Conducts Bach, Berg, and Brahms”
September 19, 2025Taking the second violin part, Gilbert, who has previously played in the Philharmonic’s chamber music concerts,...
Israel
Daniel Barenboim at La Scala
February 18, 2025Drama number three was the presence on the podium of Daniel Barenboim, the child prodigy born...
Blog-Dance
Dance to the Music: National Youth Orchestras of Chile
December 23, 2024My father, Hugo Domínguez, had been Hen’s assistant, and one day they were walking in a...
Performing Arts
Orchestras, Oboes and Orgies
July 30, 2024"I was honest about my own behavior and that of others, yet stopped short of revealing...
Performing Arts
NY Philharmonic’s Modern Beethoven Festival Concludes
July 8, 2024There’s nothing worse than a complacent performance of a Beethoven symphony. Being such a staple of...
Books
Book Review: Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir by Rosamond Bernier
June 26, 2024Rosamond’s very early experiences with the great and famous were connected with her father’s love for...
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