The Curtis Institute of Music has outbid two other parties to buy the nearby Art Alliance building. It belonged to the University of Arts, which filed for bankruptcy last September. Curtis bid $7.5 million for […]
From my latest essay in The Critic: The harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani tweeted the other day asking, how many handshakes to Hitler? Most respondents touched Adolf at three or four removes. I managed it in one […]
Matthew Raimondi died in Bar Harbor, Maine, at the age of 96 on Saturday, October 19. He is survived by his wife, Natalie, and daughter, Diana, and scores of friends and fellow musicians with whom […]