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- Copenhagen's "Ring": Why "Eurotrash" Isn't the Whole Story
- Is Rachmaninov a Waste of Time?
- Joyce Hatto Piano Fraud, Wrapped Up Nicely by The New Yorker
- Stephen Sondheim Trashes Diane Paulus "Upgrade" of 'Porgy and Bess'
- Why Isn't Inventing Instruments Considered Normal Anymore?
- Classical Beach Reading: Robert Levine's "Weep, Shudder, Die"
- Friday Links
- 12 Operas NOT to Attend on Valentine’s Day
- Martha Graham in Appalachian Spring
- Happy 70th Placido Domingo
- A Star Trek Version of The Magic Flute?
- If You Think You Hate Charles Ives On His Birthday
- Holde Kunst Review: Robin Holloway's Essays And Diversions II
- A Final Reckoning: Viktor Ullmann's Last Piece
- The Rolls-Royce Treatment
- Latest "Someone Else Composed It" Story: Beethoven & “Für Elise.”
- Tribute to the Late Michael Steinberg, Sunday October 4
- Met “Tosca” Booed: Luc Bondy vs. Franco Zeffirelli
- A Belated "Leb Wohl" to Hildegard Behrens
- Is Tchaikovsky an 18th Century Composer?
- Get to know Tchaikovsky Online
- My Ring Cycle Dream Cast
- YouTube Symphony Mashup
- Good Friday, April 10, 1868
- Prokofiev, Bartok Interviews
- New Production Boo-ed at Met; Links on Audience Etiquette
- Finally Hear Hindemith's "The Long Christmas Dinner"
- ArkivMusic Creates PRINT Classical Music Magazine
- New LA Ring Cycle & a Boito/Scotto Birthday
- John Cage "As Slow As Possible" - 7th Note Reached
- Sunlight on the Marble, Or Viva Martinů!
- How to Write Irrelevant Criticism, Or Another Look at Bartok's Second Piano Concerto
- The First Two Bartok Piano Concertos
- Musical Anniversary: A Florentine Tragedy
- Obama Inauguration Music & Symbolism, Part 2
- Obama Inauguration Music and Symbolism, Part 1
- My Desert Island Musical Passages
- Celebrating Beethoven's "Greatest Concert Ever"
- Why "The Little Drummer Boy" Is So Annoying
- YouTube Symphony: The Latest Thing to Do About Classical Music
- Boston Symphony Offers Digital Music
- John Adams Interview In Salon - Video
- Met Player - Enjoy Archival Performances Online
- Composition: John Hodgman Offers A Non-Musical Example
- Bach's Financial Crisis Soundtrack
- News Flash: Great Music is Hard to Write
- Blogs Are Abuzz for Anna Magdalena Bach - Did She Compose the Cello Suites?
- Twenty Comments on Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas, Part 2
- Twenty Comments on Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas, Part 1
- Friday Links: Let the Conductors Do the Talking
- This Summer's Debate: Boring New Music
- Classical Music Beach Reading
- "Mozart's" First Four Piano Concerti: Why the Heck Not?
- Albert Roussel and the Temple of Doom-Oops! I Mean Roussel's "Padmavati"-Is a Beautiful and Savage Dream
- Beethoven's "Missa"-Perched Between the Baroque and the Romantic Neo-Baroque
- Conservatory Whippersnappers Shouldn't Be Allowed To Use Percussion
- Ten More Arrows and Maxims
- Steinway Buys ArkivMusic
- In Praise of ALDaily.com
- Art of the Fugue is iTunes Classical Chart-topper
- Wolfgang Wagner Decides Not to Decide
- Muti Is New CSO Director
- It's A Holde-Quiz! Time To Earn Your Mortarboard!
- The National and the Confessional in Smetana and Dvorak
- Carelessness? Classical "Orthodoxy"? Manufactured Coherence? -Some Thoughts on Dvorak's D Minor Quartet
- Sanskrit or English? Oddly, It Doesn't Much Matter-A Postscript to My Satyagraha Post
- Satyagraha-Pro and Contra
- Greatest Tone Poem? Don't Forget to Consider Smetana's "From Bohemia's Woods and Valleys"
- Smetana and Deafness
- Two More Worthy Works of Smetana and Dvorak
- Smetana: Date Revisions and Slight change for Wk. 1
- Michael Tilson Thomas - "Keeping Score" Web Site
- A Note on Smetana's Macbeth
- A Splendid CD
- A Dream Tristan I Never Dreamed Of, But Should Have
- Most Transformative Classical Compositions Ever?
- Do We Know Johann Sebastian Bach?
- Backstage at the Opera
- A Tale of Dvorak in Two Cities
- Rooting for Prokofiev at the Oscars
- Modern Mashup
- Top 12 List: Classical Music for Valentines Day - Without Cheating!
- "Courage has grown so tired, and longing so great."
- "Buzzards Gotta Eat, Same as Worms"-Some Listening Suggestions for Carneval Season
- What's So Degenerate About Korngold?
- Renee Fleming Sings Korngold
- Entartete Musik Reading List
- Hope You Didn't Miss This
- Guest Blogger "Charley in the Box" Unveils the "Island of Misfit Scores"
- This At Least Was Obvious, Wasn't It?
- A Day With Bach and Bratwurst at Career Builder, and Cats That Glow in the Dark
- Dove Sono?
- Nietzsche vs. Flaubert; Or, What to Listen to While Walking
- We Don't Have to Agree, But, "If It Doesn't Fit, You Must Acquit"-A Postscript to "Reporters, Boosters, and Critics"
- Here Are Some More
- The Limitations of Nomenclature: Introductions by Beethoven and Brahms
- Beginner's Luck?
- Boosters, Reporters, and Critics
- A Brief Postscript to "Evasions...Definitions" And Some New Maxims and Arrows
- Evasions May Be Maddening, But Definitions May Be Limiting
- Not Every Composer Has Everything: Some Half Hearted Provocations
- This is Better-A Postscript to "I Just Have To Comment"
- I Just Have to Comment
- Do You Want Three Hours of Meditation on Meaninglessness? Mix Schnittke with the Coen Brothers
- Shostakovich 4,7, and 11...Chicago, We Don't Have a Problem
- Prokofiev and Berlioz with the Verbier Festival Orchestra
- A brief Postscript to "A Bridge Across the Abyss"
- "A Bridge Across the Abyss" -Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten (at Chicago Lyric Opera, the dress rehearsal was this afternoon)
- Some Clarifications and Amplifications: Barber, Taruskin, and Snobbery
- Barber's Violin Concerto
- A Brief Comment on a Common Objection to Atonality
- Some More Random "Maxims and Arrows"
- Postscript to "If You Can't Beat 'em, Should You Join 'em?"
- Review of Taruskin's Article, Pt. 2: If You Can't Beat 'em, Should You Join 'em?
- Announcing Winter 2008 Classes
- Taruskin on the "Defense of Classical Music" Pt. 1
- Arguments are Won by the Best Arguer, not Necessarily by the Best Argument: Richard Taruskin's Polemic in The New Republic
- Four Cellists, ONE Cello
- Last Night's Mahler Sixth: a Real Review
- Mahler's Popularity? He's the Antidote for Medieval (and Modern) Anonymity: the Sixth at Symphony Center
- Is Bruckner a Niche Composer?
- The Levine 1997 Gotterdammerung -A "Holde-Review" -With a Few Comments Pertaining to Same
- Repetition or Redundancy: Introductions by Mendelssohn and Mussorgsky
- In Defense of "Cavalleria Rusticana"
- Berlioz and his "Fantastique"; Revenge May Be Best Served Cold, But Hector Ordered a Side Dish of Panache With His Meal
- By Bach Or Not By Bach: That's (Not) The Question
- A New (Old) Approach to Bach
- Cruel and Sad News-Our Greatest Tenor is Dead
- Pilgrim's Music By Berlioz and Wagner
- Mea Culpa: Berlioz and His Four Symphonies
- Schumann's Second Symphony: What Did Twentieth Century Critics Allow Schumann to Learn From Beethoven?
- Schumann's "Spring" Symphony: A Great Symphony that Could Have Been Greater
- The Schumann Requiem, op.148: Some Works are Ignored for Convenience
- Do All Styles Become Historical? Or Just Those of the Nineteenth Century?
- An Egregious Example of Critical Dilettantism
- Do Composers Compose Out of a Need for "Personal Expression"? The Strange Case of Dr. Mendelssohn and Mr. Schumann
- "Cardillac" Arrest: Hindemith's Work is the Operatic "Caligari"
- What Do Some Operas Have in Common with Professional Wrestling?
- I'll Offer Him a Setting He Can't Refuse: Puccini and Regietheatre
- Berlioz and the Listener: Frames of Reference
- Three Sonatas and a Passacaglia; Brahms and the Symphonic Finale
- What's So Wrong with Mendelssohn's op.44?
- Mendelssohn and "The Anxiety of Influence"
- Caught Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Mendelssohn's Reputation
- A note on Mendelssohn's Symphonic Chronology
- You Don't Have to Start at the Beginning: Mendelssohn and Beethoven
- Elitism and the Marketplace in Opera
- Regietheatre: It's a Fad
- What Would He Say Now?
- Reviews of Katharina Wagner's "Meistersinger" at Bayreuth
- This is Insane
- Composers' Personal Tempos
- Chacun a son Gout: Stylistic Plurality in the 20th Century
- The Problem With the "New Tonality"
- Arnold Lunaire: The Sun Never Shines in Schoenberg
- Most Important Work of the Twentieth Century? Take a Look at Richard Strauss's "Salome"
- If It Ain't Unanimous, It Ain't Tragic
- Composers' "Personal" Keys
- A Provocative Conductor's Provocative Book
- The Worst Symphony in the World
- Lionel Pike and the Sibelius 7th
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