Riccardo Muti, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra withdrew from his remaining performances in Chicago in October due to illness (“extreme gastric distress”) The…
Here is an easy way to remember the differences between French, German, and Italian augmented sixth chords. Let’s use E major for our example. The…
The New Jersey State Council on the Arts increased grants to arts organizations across North Jersey and a token few to South Jersey. They distributed…
Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 is tied with No. 5 for being my favorite Mahler work. So naturally when a friend told me he was going…
Composer Max Reger famously wrote to Dr. Rudolph Louis, a critic for the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten who had published a bad review on February 7,…
Aretha Franklin and Condoleezza Rice were onstage together at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts here in Philadelphia on July 27. The concert description…
By now you have heard that the Philadelphia Orchestra has named the Québécois conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Yah-NEEK Neh-ZAY Say-GUN) to be its new music director…
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2010 Philadelphia Music Project Grant Recipients. Here is a listing of the Grants awarded. The Chamber Orchestra…
Critic Peter Dobrin was kind enough to publish a blurb in the Inquirer about the 25th anniversary of Eugene Ormandy’s burial. There was going to…
American composer and conductor John Adams recently posted interesting and personal observations on Elgar’s Enigma Variations. My program notes on the Variations for the upcoming…