Tuesday night, it was Riley as composer, represented by a contemporary work and an early masterpiece. Chase played excerpts ...

Long before this year’s movie awards are handed out, fans of pianist Yuja Wang were accustomed to the idea of a Chinese superheroine doing everything, everywhere, all at once. But even they might have ...

It’s not every pianist who can sell out Carnegie Hall without divulging what she’s going to play, as Yuja Wang did Tuesday night. The capacity audience came prepared to gasp at her scintillating ...

Act I was lukewarm, and a lot of that had to do with the singing and orchestral playing. Queequeg and Greenhorn are the first characters to sing, and Green and Costello were subdued in the opening ...

One Response to “Boulder orchestra’s Beethoven sends Zankel audience out on a Rocky Mountain high” Posted Jun 07, 2025 at 8:20 am by Linda Kig I am so proud of you all. It takes dedication and ...

Champion, the first opera by Terence Blanchard, composer of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, made its eagerly anticipated Metropolitan Opera debut Monday night to warm applause. In the end, however, the ...

At Carnegie Hall, the month of May is coming to a close with Shostakovich and Evgeny Kissin. The pianist is leading a series of concerts of the composer’s music. The second one, Wednesday night, was ...

Whatever else one says about Kevin Puts’s The Brightness of Light, which received its New York premiere Friday night at the New York Philharmonic, the work’s creators are an impressive bunch. Start ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Aida returned Sunday afternoon for an end-of-season run. From the opening-night performance on New Year’s Eve the cast has gone through a few changes. These ...

“If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine Tesori’s unsettling opera Grounded, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season Monday night, “it would ...

The big event at Lincoln Center this summer is the Run Amoc* festival, produced by the American Modern Opera Company. More than opera, the festival will cover instrumental performances and dance ...

One Response to “Reich premiere spotlights fervent pulse of strong Philharmonic program” Posted Oct 09, 2023 at 1:11 pm by PK I want to thank Mr. Grella for his thoughtful and insightful review. I too ...