The polemicist Heather Mac Donald detects the dead hand of Edward Said behind the Met’s dysfunctional new production of Aida in which the supernumerary hero is a befuddled Egyptologist. Her brilliant article appears in next […]
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has announced the death of Jehoash Hirschberg, who taught in its department of musicology from 1971. Hirchberg was the biographer of the Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim. He also write books […]
This is interesting, as it fills in an ‘interim” Elgar Violin Concerto, and a fine if technically flawed Cockaigne. In between is Toscanini’s take on some Elgar. So first, the Overure Cockaigne (In London Town). […]