Commentary
Kurt Masur leaves behind a complex legacy, one that’s not neatly (or easily) summed up by the caricature of a stern, conservative, Old World German maestro.
Some pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.
A guide to the symbolic color odyssey that will keep you on your toes if you choose to see Carol more than once (and I’m thinking you will).
Of course, it’s a tricky business to summarize a classical music scene as busy and wide as Boston’s.
Top of the Hub was one of the very rare places in the country where ordinary folks would bump into jazz every night.
If you’ve recently been mourning the end of the Novel of Ideas—take heart. And dig in, for Submission offers a smorgasbord.
Two recent horror films know what they are doing: they are intelligent, clever, original, and genuinely disturbing.
Bernstein’s Songfest is Exhibit A in the argument that American orchestras and conductors need to champion the music of these shores.
James MacMillan is one of the few contemporary composers who has embraced elements of the avant-garde and still found a wide audience.
Classical Music Commentary: “Boulez est mort”
And yet, for all the violence of his youthful polemics and his unflinchingly-held beliefs, Pierre Boulez was neither demagogue nor ideologue.
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