The Baritone as Democrat
How Lawrence Tibbett prophesied the Metropolitan Opera crisis of today
Anchoring Shards of Memory
We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both
composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present
Consummated in Exile
A new recording of Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances conveys the breadth of the 20th-century composer’s life’s journey
Ripeness Is All
What may be the fate of classical music’s new superstars?
The Homesick Composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff may have taken American citizenship in 1943, but his heart and soul remained in his Russian past
Shostakovich in South Dakota
A manifesto for the future of American classical music
Our Revels Now Are Ended
What the pandemic portends for the performing arts in America
Porgy and Bess at the Met
The pinnacle of American classical music and the nation’s most venerable opera company have long needed each other
New World Prophecy
Dvořák once predicted that American classical music would be rooted in the black vernacular. Why, then, has the field remained so white?
