One of the best features of Tuesday’s music-making was the old-fashioned layout of the orchestra. With the violins divided ...
Groissböck is cut from the old-school model of song recitalists. His facial expressions and body movements can be both ...
Much of that was due to the material: Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 by Shostakovich; Nikolai Kapustin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 ...
A Baltic breeze wafted through Carnegie’s Zankel Hall Thursday night, as a trio of Latvian and Lithuanian musicians paid ...
First among newcomers was the South African soprano Vuvu Mpofu, making her Met debut in the most conspicuous way imaginable, ...
Manfred Honeck has led the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as music director since 2008. The orchestra bears his imprint, a ...
Piotr Beczała in the title role and Sonya Yoncheva as Maddalena in Giordano’s Andrea Chénier at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera Andrea Chénier returned to the Metropolitan ...
Andrew J. Kim conducted the New York Youth Symphony Sunday at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Evelyn Freja The New York Youth Symphony opened its season Sunday afternoon in Carnegie Hall with the kind of ...
There is a cognitive dissonance that comes from seeing an orchestra arrayed on the stage of a high school auditorium and then ...