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When the orchestra of the Munich Philharmonic makes a sound, it makes a glorious sound. Whether, in the end, you agree with the use to which...

In the beginning of July 2007, the organ class of Jacques van Oortmerssen of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam took an organ trip to the Du...

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to good things in Blogville and Beyond. Ionarts has raved about the past chamber opera produc...

When I saw Peter Konwitschny’s Tristan & Isolde at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich , together with his Parsifal , it proved the epi...

This blog got its modest start in July 2003, and we have now published posts in five calendar years, more or less without interruption. Acco...

December 22 is the feast day of Blessed Jacopone da Todi (d. December 25, 1306), one of the Franciscan spirituals. In a post this summer I...

St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, photo courtesy of the Kennedy Center The Fortas Chamber Music Series decided to attempt to create a new hol...

On Tuesday evening Washington Performing Arts Society presented Atlanta native Jennifer Stumm , the first violist ever to win first prize i...