The University of California at Berkeley has an excellent classical music venue, the Hertz Hall. It seats 678. But it is often three-quarters empty. So they have built the Wu Hall, with just 100 seats. […]
Before the various PR flood my inbox with protests, let me specify that the two elements above are not appearing together. Simon Rattle will conduct the Lucerne Festival Orchestra for the first time in his […]
by Barry Lenson Heroic and Troubled in Life, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Stands at the Pinnacle of Romantic Russian Music Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, born on May 7, 1840, in Votkinsk, Russia, is indisputably one of the […]