Liberated Dissonance

I've been backed up with work and some other projects, but I don't want to let too much time to pass without mentioning the Metropol...

Charles Ives died on this date in 1954. It was only three and a half years before I was born, so I'm guessing that was too soon for him...

And what did you expect?

I get to do this, because it's my blog Sonnet &#8212 May 29, 1913 In times like these, without a certain measure (Grow up; a clock s...

A performance can make or break one's attitude toward a piece of music. I have to confess, as much as I like Stravinsky, it took me yea...

Whatever your attitude toward the royal family (and it probably isn't worth the time to even have an attitude), or toward Christopher Hi...

I don't intend to give a detailed review here, but I would like to acknowledge the two excellent choral concerts I attended in the past ...

Spring is the season of passion and death. If you don't believe me, look to the concert calendar. Funerals have long been an inspiration...

In response to Anthony Tommasini's list of the ten greatest composers of all time, Michael Zwiebach of San Francisco Classical Voice has...

A reader wrote to one of the editors at Montgomery Newspapers pointing out that in my Ticket article on the Old York Road Symphony, I misspe...