Canceling the Conductor
When art and politics commingle.
Magazine: Music
Changing, and Staying the Same
Two American operas based on classic Italian novels had their premieres about five weeks apart.
Terry Teachout Is Dead
Remembering a critic and a friend.
Miles Davis, Someday and Always
There’s no need to wait for the prince. He’s been here all along.
Bach, Beethoven, and Other Friends of Mankind
What the great music of the West means to us.
Classical Music Without Quotas
Orchestras shouldn’t be affirmative-action programs.
The Day the Music Died
Making the future safe is one thing; we must also interrogate the past.
Fight for Music
‘Wokeness’ has attacked academia and spilled out into the wider world, and classical music is not immune.
Hello to Music
If the Salzburg Festival lives another hundred years, that won’t be enough.
The Naughty Nineties
It came to pass that I saw about 20 minutes of a bad new documentary about Woodstock ’99.