Martha Argerich: No place to Haydn

Three seconds in, a Trump campaign video (here) uses a flash shot of the Dutch violinist and a teenaged singer in its opening sequence. The clip, taken without permission, has been circulated by Twitter owner […]

Friends have reported that the quietly influential minimalist composer Tom Johnson died this morning at the age of 85. As critic for the Village Voice in the 1970s, he tracked the rise of Glass-Reich type […]

The mezzo-soprano Regina Sarfaty, who has died at 90, never got picked to sing at the Met. She was picked by Santa Fe in 1957 while still a student at Juilliard and she went on […]