I’ve been critical of a variety of operatic films that succumb to Television Syndrome. That’s the belief you can’t count on a TV audience wanting to...
The Blair Wind Quintet is a faculty ensemble of the Blair School of Music of Vanderbilt University. Though a woodwind player myself, I am not familiar...
Way back in Fanfare 24:2 I reviewed Steve Mackey’s opera Ravenshead and concluded that while it had a number of compelling elements, it didn’t ultimately satisfy,...
What a risk-taking, creatively fertile theater the Opéra de la Monnaie is. Although much remembered for Antonio Pappano’s reign (during which Britten operas were introduced to...
Numerous paradoxes of the acoustical world inhabit the sounds of string playing, I am reminded here. A solo instrument might reveal itself as warm and beautiful...
I suppose I’m not giving away any secrets to note just how much fanciers of 19th-century piano concertos that lie outside the Grand Masterworks of Forever...
The music of Kara Karayev (1918–82) is not well represented in the current catalog. As favored students of Shostakovich go, his fall since the demise of...
Even geniuses can be wrong. Goethe says that nightingales fly away, but spring lures them back. They have learned nothing new, he says, but sing the...
Having given us some fascinating examples of re-imaginings of the Baroque composer’s works through the lenses of such formidable Romantic composers and arrangers as Busoni, Reger,...
