Pablo Casals conducts a gloriously old-fashioned 1971 performance of J. S. Bach’s concerto for three keyboards and orchestra, staged at the United Nations building in New York. The soloists are Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Eugene Istomin and […]
Ten years ago, the musicians and people of Nuremburg capture the spirit of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Forty million people watched the video. It was an innocent, trusting time. The post Remember flashmobs? […]
San Diego’s symphony hall, the Jacobs Music Center, is reopening this weekend after extensive refurbishment with Mahler’s second symphony. As an unusual prelude to the ribbon cutting, music director Rafael Payare took the oath of […]