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Most of us have heard the Polovtsian Dances from Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor, but I daresay, most of us haven't seen then. One of classical…

"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream." Have you found yourself quoting this old American recently? I did, on July 14th, when I received an…

I came across a media story regarding Elvis Week, which gets underway this Saturday, August 8th, in Memphis. We happen to have two recordings in our…

The great soprano Renata Tebaldi was born on February 1, 1922 and died in 2004, rich, retired, still lovely and still very much loved by fans, all over…

One of the pleasures of my job is to keep an eye out for "rising stars."Â Right now I'm fascinated with Korean pianist Soyeon Lee. She's beautiful,…

Lemony Snicket is at it again, this time with a classical music mystery: The Composer is Dead. I shan't go into a huge explanation. Suffice it to say…

Not long ago I started a list of "small music" -- musical works that are unusually short, written for unusually sparse instrumentation and/or on themes…

Well, folks, I have now, officially, seen it all. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra held a three-hour concert for an audience of...plants. 100 different…

President Biden is set to announce a U.S. ban on the import of Russian oil because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Andrew Bird ruminates on a line from Joan Didion's 1968 essay collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem.