The Enigma of Ur
Is the music of the future one in which form and structure give way to an aesthetic inspired by the primordial?
Lessons in the Diplomatic Arts
Notes from a musical tour of South Africa
Song for the Earth
Finding a message for today in the music of Gustav Mahler
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
