Performances

Yuja Wang rocks the moderns at Carnegie Hall – Apr 14, 2022

It’s not every pianist who can sell out Carnegie Hall without […]

UChicago’s Korngold Festival soars with belated U.S. premiere of “Die Kathrin” – Apr 09, 2022

At a time in the arts when good intentions are often […]

Glass’s 13th Symphony makes U.S. debut in illuminating National Arts Centre Orchestra concert – Apr 07, 2022

Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra came to Carnegie Hall Tuesday night […]

Clueless applause apart, Lang Lang brings depth, insight to Bach’s “Goldbergs” in Miami – Mar 13, 2022

When Lang Lang came on stage at the Arsht Center in […]

Powerful Bruckner, engaging Mozart from Blomstedt, Helmchen and CSO – Mar 12, 2022

One of the more heartening developments at Orchestra Hall in recent […]

Ma, Ax and Kavakos bring bracing advocacy to Beethoven with a pared-down “Pastorale” – Mar 11, 2022

“You really should hear the arrangement for full orchestra,” one wit […]

Putin friends jettisoned, the Vienna Philharmonic opens Carnegie weekend with energy and defiance – Feb 28, 2022

Classical music is generally seen as a cloistered art form—which many […]

Muti breaks CSO’s Glass ceiling with surging performance of Eleventh Symphony – Feb 24, 2022

[Editor’s Note: Technical issues prevented this review from being posted last […]

Houston Grand Opera fetes Carlisle Floyd as composer, mentor and friend – Feb 14, 2022

Carlisle Floyd was a young faculty member at Florida State University […]

NY City Opera returns with world premiere of Gordon’s moving “Finzi-Continis” – Jan 29, 2022

Giorgio Bassani’s 1962 novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is one […]