Last Saturday night, the New York Philharmonic played a concert splashed with color. It began with a work by Lera Auerbach, written in 2010 or so. (The history of this work is slightly complicated.) I ...
How utter can perfection get? The moonlight gleams, the nightingale sings, and Respighi’s ghostly Roman legionaries come up the ancient Appian Way in a thudding, clanging quickstep that will make your ...