Feast of Music

The Door Less Chosen: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla Returns to the NY Philharmonic

In his 2022 profile of the Lithuanian conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, the NY Times Joshua Barone recounted a conversation she had […]

Throughout my conversation with Manfred Honeck in Pittsburgh a couple of weeks ago, there was one institution which seemed to

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been attending concerts at Heinz Hall for nearly 30 years, a byproduct

PITTSBURGH, PA Last weekend, I attended a recording session of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in Heinz Hall. Ok, that needs

Watching the absurdly-long State of the Union last night, I couldn’t help but think of this equally-absurd image of Trump

Most of today’s opera companies stage productions according to what’s known as the stagione system, where a single opera remains

Having documented contemporary music in New York for the better part of two decades, I’ve had a front row seat

“Conducting has become the profession of a traveling salesman… A conductor has to stay put to educate an orchestra.” –

Despite the prevalence of Finnish conductors at the top of today’s orchestra heap – think Esa-Pekka Salonen, Klaus Mäkelä, or