“Timms and Thake seem fundamentally out of step with Lincoln Center and its public, both extant and potential.” Alex is right: In the name of anti-elitism, awful things are happening on 65th Street newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

The demise of Lincoln Center as a serious presenter was clear over a year ago nytimes.com/2022/07/20/art…

“the bearer of perhaps the most famous driver’s license in Los Angeles” ⁦⁦cganz⁩ is in the passenger seat for the Range Rover ride to Westwood 🚘🔥 nytimes.com/2023/08/24/art…

After 24 years at the helm, Frank J. Oteri, editor of New Music USA's multi-media publication NewMusicBox, will be stepping down from his position at the end of August after joining the full-time faculty of The New School's College of Performing Arts (which includes the Mannes

“The once-lucrative subscription model had been waning for years, but it has fallen off a cliff since the pandemic struck.” nytimes.com/2023/08/29/the…

And, from me, on Hyperion’s belated move into streaming

The indispensable Manny Ax, profiled by ⁦@fafnerthekite⁩. I’ve been guilty of taking him for granted — maybe you have, too. nytimes.com/2023/09/01/art…

Your guide to the classical fall season! nytimes.com/2023/09/04/art…

Finally listening to this and David is right: Honeck and Pittsburgh’s Tchaikovsky 5 “gives the symphony all the harrowing drama — the dread, the instability, the vertiginous sense of being on the edge — of a mental breakdown.” nytimes.com/2023/08/31/art…

Diamanda Galás is fierce as ever on the sentence given to the woman who murdered her voice teacher, and the way our society treats the aged

Join us in wishing Michael Riesman a happy 80th birthday!  Michael has been a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble since 1974, and since has served at its Music Director now for 47 years!  This includes every major premiere by the ensemble since Music in 12 Parts and EINSTEIN ON

visit Charles Busch in his Greenwich Village duplex, where he has a bed fit for Gene Tierney, to talk about his new memoir, "Leading Lady."nytimes.com/2023/09/07/the…

I reviewed the premiere of Barrie Kosky’s “Rheingold” in London nytimes.com/2023/09/12/art…

Christian Thielemann wird ab 2024 die Nachfolge von Daniel Barenboim als Generalmusikdirektor an der Staatsoper Berlin antreten. Das verkündete Senator Joe Chialo soeben bei der Pressekonferenz vor Ort. Chialo: „Mit ihm sichern wir höchste musikalische Exzellenz für unsere Stadt.“

James Jorden, 1954-2023, the keeper of the flame. I will miss him a lot. nytimes.com/2023/10/04/art…

Callas at 100 🌞 nytimes.com/2023/11/29/art…

Riccardo Muti called her “without doubt the best Verdi mezzo-soprano today on the planet.” But Anita Rachvelishvili has struggled with vocal problems since her pregnancy two years ago. nytimes.com/2023/12/20/art…

What’s missing from “Maestro” nytimes.com/2023/12/22/art…

News from the The New York Times newsroom: Robert D. McFadden is retiring after 63 years and 4,200 articles. "Bob set the standard for a gifted generalist capable of delivering a literary synthesis of the most important story of the day under impossible deadline pressure."