The conductor has enjoyed a clear run until now. As music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 18 years he enjoyed the confidence of the musicians and the adulation of a star-struck audience. The […]
Do you remember when Saturday Night Live was still funny? I had forgotten and no longer bother to watch its endless succession of unfunny ‘celebrity’ hosts and unmusical musical guests. But my friend Adele reminded […]
The music of Amy Beach rarely if ever fails to impress, and to delight. Her expression seems so natural, so unforced, her vernacular so charmingly American, imbued with the warmth of both heart and hearth, […]