Besame mucho – the historically informed performance

From my latest monthly essay in The Critic, out now: One morning in 2007 I knocked at the door of a Berlin villa and was admitted by staff. I was shown into a music room whose […]

Faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music have voted 56-25 to join the American Federation of Musicians. ‘This is a historic vote and a signal to the world that CIM will remain one of the […]

The Colorado Symphony has promoted its principal conductor, Peter Oundjian, to music director. The agreeable Oundjian was formerly chief of the Toronto Symphony and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Long before that, he played a football […]