This is the first recording of these so-called “Dialogue Cantatas,” but it is certainly not the first appearance of the music of Christoph Graupner (1683-1760): on this site: previously, we covered his bassoon “cantatas” (also […]
Sargent and Paris explores the early career of American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), from his arrival in Paris in 1874 as a precocious 18-year-old art student through the mid-1880s, when his infamous portrait Madame X was a […]
This week’s guest on David Krauss’s podcast is the conductor Gerard Schwarz, who started out as co-principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic orchestra. Schwarz, 76, went on to become transformational music director of the […]