Met Police: Play classical music to scare off drug dealers

How far may a person go to free themselves from dire circumstances? Here, a woman becomes a vile murderer, and yet the 26-year-old composer Shostakovich sympathises with her.  Of his own radically complex leading character, […]

We hear the Orchestre de Paris is about to name Esa-Pekka Salonen as its next music director. The official word is expected within hours. E-P, who is 67, will replace his fellow-Finn Klaus Mäkelä, whose […]

First the Met at movie houses destroyed the live New York audience. Now, Gelb admits, his big idea has eaten itself. From an interview with El Pais (Spain): ‘When I took the position in 2006, […]