The Maestro as Engineer
Ernest Ansermet and Arthur Honegger’s speeding train
On St. Cecilia’s Day
Handel’s ode for November 22
The Virtuoso as Aristocrat
Jorge Bolet and one memorable night in 1974
State of Gliss
The art of Gloria Coates
Bewitching Sounds of Bronze
The maverick Lou Harrison
The Power of Musick
Handel, Dryden, and Alexander the Great
The Boy Romantic
Erich Wolfgang Korngold and his musical snowman
A Tingling Spine Every Time
Some of classical music’s most sublime moments
The Lonely Heath at Twilight
Gustav Holst, Thomas Hardy, and a musical portrait of a timeless place
A Requiem of One’s Own
Stravinsky’s late 12-tone masterpiece