When I review a concert, I have to summarize a bushel of ephemeral experiences in a couple of neat paragraphs. Often there isn’t so much room to expand on the moments that stick with me long after the ...
Humans have always turned to music to help us chronicle our often troubled times. Whether evoking personal or social stories, music can move us beyond facts and figures, dates and events, and reveal ...
Here’s a familiar scene of a night at the symphony: a perfectly disciplined audience sitting in complete silence for more than two hours with nothing but music. There’s no food, no chit chat, no movie ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Thinking outside the canon, and finding the gritty and the beautiful, within it. By Joshua Barone and Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim JOSHUA BARONE Few ...
Krystal Kymn '28 attends a performance from the Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series and reflects on the popularity of classical music among Cornell students.
No less a towering giant than Glenn Gould considered live performances outdated and artistically inappropriate. He gave his last concert in 1964, and spent the next 20 years in recording studios, ...