05
Oct
More Cowbell
A searing posthumous work by a Russian master meets a rather straight-laced run-down of Mahler’s titanic seventh.
7 min read
dead composers
07
Sep
Stage Directions
Music Mountain celebrates a decade of Oskar Espina Ruiz’s leadership with a series of joyously clarinet-centric programs.
8 min read
24
Aug
Sound and Fury
Violin concerti at Tanglewood and a new album for bassoon and bassoon and bassoon and...
7 min read
10
Aug
Xenoatmospherics
Poems about the Holocaust, air from another planet, and one miraculous cricket.
10 min read
15
Jun
How to Contain the World
It’s summer, and that means it’s beach read season, and what says beach read like a dense academic treatise on some of the thorniest and most brobdingnagian works in the standard repertoire?
15 min read
18
May
Up All Night (to Get Jesus)
I’ve heard people say there isn’t much Rachmaninov in the Vigil; it may not have the pyrotechnics of his piano concerti, but the variety he pulls out of this slight palette testifies to his compositional skill.
5 min read