There is really no way that I can write an unbiased review of Martin Perry's brand new recording on Bridge of the Charles Ives "Concord" Sonata and three of Gordon Binkerd's Essays for the Piano (the first recordings of these pieces), so...

There is French narration for about a minute and a half into the first segment, but then it's just pure Bartok. Part one Part two Part three Part four Part five Part six

Last night I heard an interview show on the radio that featured some of the members of Brooklyn Rider. The point of the show was to introduce this particular string quartet as a group of musicians who are saving classical music because t...

Our son Ben is playing (and beat-boxing) an improvisation with a marxolin player. What a nifty instrument!

The BSO musicians here I remember from my days as a young person in Boston are Alfred Krips, Rolland Tapley, George Zazofsky, Clarence Knudson, Stanley Benson, and Sheldon Rotenberg; violists Eugen Lehner, George Humphrey, and Jerome Lip...

Fran Lebowitz talks here (about 3 1/2 minutes into the clip) why there is so little that's new in current culture.“There’s nothing new because the culture is soaked in nostalgia. I believe that must be caused by people my age. I mean, ...

Fran Lebowitz was born on October 27, 1950, and Oscar Wilde was born October 16, 1854. They are nearly a century apart, but so close not only in spirit and wit, but in looks. Wow.

Now that I've worked my way through Brahms, I've fallen back on Bruckner again. An odd pair of second raters. The one was "in the casting ladle" too long, the other not long enough. Now I stick to Beethoven. There are only he and Rich...

I have gone all through Brahms by now. All I can say of him is that he's a puny little dwarf with a rather narrow chest. Good Lord, if a breath from the lungs of Richard Wagner whistled about his ears he would scarcely be able to keep ...

. . . So you think you know something about Chopin? Try your hand at these quizzes! And then there's the Chopin-specific "name that tune."