The moral should be to err in favor of the audacious. That’s what this world – and this art form – require.
Rethinking the Repertoire
Rethinking the Repertoire #24: Charles Villiers Stanford’s “Songs of the Fleet”
Composer Charles Villiers Stanford’s best traits were formidable indeed.
Rethinking the Repertoire #12 – Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Violin Concerto
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has an uncanny understanding of what instruments can do and how to showcase them best.
Rethinking the Repertoire #6: Felix Mendelssohn’s “Die erste Walpurgisnacht”
Felix Mendelssohn remains one of the West’s most underrated composers.
Rethinking the Repertoire #5: Leonard Bernstein’s “Songfest”
Bernstein’s Songfest is Exhibit A in the argument that American orchestras and conductors need to champion the music of these shores.
Rethinking the Repertoire #3: Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Symphony no. 6
The truth is that the music of this most politically aware and morally astute of composers needs – and deserves – much wider currency.