Liberated Dissonance

In Lansdale, for heaven's sake. Here is my  preview article for the upcoming performance by the Choristers. I must say David Spitko is ...

This week I finished reading Richard Zoglin’s dogged biography of Bob Hope, titled simply, Hope . I’d been eager to get my hands on it eve...

I want to take a few moments  to note the passing of Andrew Porter, the music critic for The New Yorker magazine from 1972 to 1992. The...

Time stopped briefly yesterday at St. Katherine of Siena Church in Wayne, where the 40 voices and 30 instrumentalists of the Ama Deus Ensem...

Valentin Radu will conduct the Ama Deus Ensemble in performances of the Mass in B Minor on March 29 and April 3. Herewith a link to the inte...

Here is a link to a real review of Sunday's concert. Of course, I disagree with the first person who left a comment. And here is anot...

A musical century ended yesterday when the MET Orchestra, conducted (from a wheelchair) by James Levine, presented the first performance of...

The background to this one is rather bizarre. The immortal Pat Robertson recently called marijuana use  slavery to vegetables  and added th...

Leonard Nimoy as Spock and Arlene Martel as T'pring in the Vulcan sex-ed episode "Amok Time." Spock's betrothed proved o...

I rarely attend performances by the Philadelphia Orchestra anymore. Concerts are usually scheduled for Thursday and Saturday evenings and F...