Feb 25, 2019
Love kills
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On Richard Strauss’s Elektra at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Topic: “Music”
Feb 21, 2019
A very seria opera reform
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On Gluck’s Paride ed Elena by Odyssey Opera in Boston.
Feb 19, 2019
The Critic’s Notebook
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On Claire Messud and French literature, Brenda Goodman, NYCB and NY Phil for the whole family & more from the world of culture.
Feb 16, 2019
O Peterhouse, pastor bone
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On Blue Heron’s recent performance of English polyphony from the Peterhouse Partbooks.
Feb 13, 2019
A girl in a bag, etc.
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On Rigoletto at the Met
Feb 12, 2019
Suddenly, a song would arise
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On Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, performed in the crypt of a church in Harlem.
Feb 11, 2019
The Critic’s Notebook
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On Franz Boas, Italian Renaissance drawings at the Morgan, true romance with Schumann & more from the world of culture.
Feb 11, 2019
A pianist’s gifts
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On Daniil Trifonov at Carnegie Hall
Feb 08, 2019
Correctness doesn’t cut it
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On a Brahms Requiem at the Phil.
Feb 06, 2019
Directorial perversions
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On La Gioconda at La Monnaie in Brussels.