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There was a time when seeing a contemporary work on a program otherwise occupied by Mozart, Bach, or Brahms, gave concertgoers pause. Â Do we bolt now and…

Let's face it: the world has gotten pretty strange. Mind you, some of that strangeness is a lot of fun, which is really no surprise. Culturally speaking,…

There really is a Santa Claus. If not, I don't want to hear it. What should St. Nick bring the music lover in your life? Here are some ideas. Mozart: Don…

Richard Wagner would be a Facebook fanatic.  Imagine two decades of minute-by-minute updates, telling the world in minute detail of the progress being…

Yesterday was a blustery day in Columbus, 18 degrees to be precise, but you would not have known it from the atmosphere at the Columbus Foundation where…

Recently the British magazine Classic FM published an article in which American violinist Mark O'Connor claims that the founder of the Suzuki string…

"Celebrating American Symphonies" continues this evening on Symphony @ 7Â with music of the 19th and 20th centuries from John Knowles Paine and Lou…

There are two ways to look at the title of this post.Gunther Schuller died last week at age 89. He was a composer, conductor, professor and arts…

Itzhak Perlman grew up with an autocratic style of teaching. He termed it "fascist." His teacher told him what to do and he did it. You did not question…

TWO AUDIO PIECES- BOTH INTERVIEWS A mighty voice has been silenced with the passing of the last of the great romantics: Earl Wild died quietly in his…