Liberated Dissonance

The 100-year anniversary of the premiere of Rite of Spring arrives next month, and Stephen Malinowski has just sent me a link to the "...

In his hatchet job at the Huffington Post, Daniel Asia says that, during rehearsals for the first performance of the Concerto for Orchestra,...

Daniel Asia spits on Elliott Carter's grave this week over at the Huffington Post. In a piece titled "Carter is Dead" (evokin...

Last week I interviewed violinist and conductor Jerome Rosen and violinist and violist Xiao-Fu Zhou for this article on the Independence Sin...

Look, I get it. I edit a daily newspaper and I churn out a lot of music previews, and I know what a challenge the first paragraph of a story...

Just received from the indispensable John Link:   Who else is going?

I spoke with conductor Yoon Jae Lee and composer Peter Hilliard for this article, which discusses an upcoming performance by the Old York ...

Genius is an overused term. Still ...

When I was a little boy, I wanted more than anything in the world to be funny. It took years to realize I'm not, but before I finally ac...

I missed Bartok's birthday on March 25. (Thanks to Lisa Hirsch for her post.) So here, in compensation, is the second movement of his Fi...