The New York Times – Music:
This 20th-century maestro could be extreme at the podium, but he also believed in the “beauty, joy and goodness” of an artist’s calling.
Author: David Allen
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‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall
The New York Times – Music:
The pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is appearing at Carnegie with Dvorak’s “Poetic Tone Pictures,” a rarity being performed there for the first time.
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Elayne Jones, Pioneering Percussionist, Is Dead at 94
The New York Times – Music:
She challenged racial barriers when she joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1972. But she became embroiled in a legal battle when she was denied tenure two years later.
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A Rising Conductor Who’s ‘Not Just a Pair of Hands’
The New York Times – Music:
Raphaël Pichon has quickly become one of the most interesting conductors not just in his specialty of period instruments, but in classical music.
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A Composer’s ‘Travel Guide’ to His Family’s Unspoken Past
The New York Times – Music:
Michael Gordon’s new work reflects on his father’s flight from Poland in 1939 and the migratory life — and buried traumas — that followed.
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Has the Time Come for a Long-Ignored Korngold Symphony?
The New York Times – Music:
The Symphony in F sharp has rarely been championed by major orchestras. But now, Kirill Petrenko’s Berlin Philharmonic is taking it on tour.
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Bruno Walter, a Conductor Who Found Truth Through Beauty
The New York Times – Music:
A survey of Walter’s recorded output is fascinating for the ways in which it reveals him reinventing the traditions he was seen to represent.
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Geoff Nuttall, First Among Equals in Acclaimed Quartet, Dies at 56
The New York Times – Music:
With the St. Lawrence Quartet, he played with such enthusiasm that often he swept himself from his seat. At the Spoleto Festival USA, he was a shaping force.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams Was Complicated, but Not Conservative
The New York Times – Music:
The English composer deserves a fresh assessment as the world does (and doesn’t) observe the 150th anniversary of his birth.