Music
A moral virtuoso.
Bringing Jewish music back from the ashes of Kristallnacht.
Friends, but never close, our paths intersected and then diverged, until this past September, when I connected with Leonard for the last time.
A musical analogue to the story of Joseph?
The St. Petersburg of the East.
An inventive reading of Chronicles.
Wandering Stars.
“I’ve little doubt about the Boss’s power as a galvanizing spiritual personality.”
Amernet at the Kennedy Center.
An operatic experience like no other.
Ernest Drucker was forced to halt a Brahms concerto. His son picked it back up.
Most orchestral music composed since 1950, writes Oliver Rudland, pales in comparison with that of the previous 100 years. Even popular music, after its mid-century. . .
More insidious than Wagner’s hateful ideas are his passions, which reside in his music and stir answering passions in others.