Sometimes we “big-city” types can go a little overboard, but there’s no question that being part of the so-called “critical mass” in New York City has its advantages. And for those who take special pleasure in beautiful choral music (as most readers know, I’m one of them), wandering about pre-pandemic New York provided many splendid …
Music
A Little Inspiration Perhaps
As we struggle with what’s happening all around us, from time to time we need a little inspiration. I recommend listening to two choral pieces. Both are pretty remarkable and speak to us – it seems to me – in our current situation. In the first, the Met Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, …
The Most Beautiful Art Nouveau Concert Hall in the World
[Author’s Note: Written with Andrew Berner, a true Barcelona aficionado whose assistance is much appreciated.] This is a post about the Palau de la Música Catalana (the Palace of Catalan Music) in Barcelona. And right off, let’s get past this “most beautiful” business. These posts would be very boring and predictable if every time you opened one …
Met Opera’s Akhnaten comes to PBS
There were far too many highlights of the Met’s recently truncated season – performed and planned – to write about here. And all my readers know that I’m a committed opera fan, so I was sorry not to be able to share my thoughts about one of the most important productions I’ve ever experienced at …
The Met’s Porgy and Bess Revisited
In October, when I wrote about the Met’s new production of The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, I was pretty sure I would be writing about it again. There was more I wanted to say about this important New York event, and now that it is into its second set of performances this season, this seems …
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