Arguably the least musical US national anthem

From my new monthly essay in The Critic magazine (out now): … I was not surprised to receive a 72-page book from the Ministère de la Culture, listing all the events the state has planned to […]

Not sure at all about this upcoming Vienna premiere. Would you say it’s appropriate? In KaiserRequiem, Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis merges with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem to create a musico-dramatic dance evening. It […]

A sharp-eyed audience member tells us that the orchestra playing at Tangleweood is made up one-third of substitutes: Last night’s concert at Tanglewood listed 37 substitute players, only one identified as a student at the […]