Tanglewood Is Back This Summer, With Beethoven and Yo-Yo Ma
There won’t be the traditional, grand closing-night performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with its stage full of singers. In fact, to reduce the [...]
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Music’s Most Treacherous Assignment: Finishing Mozart
For a musician, there could hardly be a more perilous task than completing works left unfinished by Mozart. “It was bloody cheek of [...]
Kurt Weill’s Path From Europe to Broadway Was a Straight Line
Kurt Weill is often described as if he were two composers. One spun quintessential sounds of Weimar-era Berlin in works like “The Threepenny [...]
Met Opera’s Music Director Decries Musicians’ Unpaid Furlough
Urging the Metropolitan Opera to compensate its artists “appropriately,” the company’s music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, sent a letter to leaders at the Met [...]
Elliott Carter’s Early Flops Reveal a Budding Musical Master
The composer Elliott Carter, looking back on his early ballet “Pocahontas,” wrote that it was “full of suggestions of things that were to [...]
Peter G. Davis, Music Critic of Wide Knowledge and Wit, Dies at 84
Peter G. Davis, who for over 30 years held sway as one of America’s leading classical music critics with crisp, witty prose and [...]
How a Scrappy Arts Group Survived the ’90s
“When things are tough all around us, we dream,” the composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe wrote in a letter to [...]
What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’?
Manfred Honeck is one of today’s leading Beethoven conductors. As music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he has created notably exciting recordings [...]
5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now
A Salieri opera, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the pianist Stephen Hough are among the highlights. ‘A Record Of …’ Buke and Gase [...]
Playing Bach, Was He a Pioneer or a Reactionary?
The conductor and keyboardist Karl Richter’s legacy can be explored anew with a 100-disc box set. By David Allen It was Karl Richter’s [...]