George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (1740) with the Harvard University Choir and Baroque Chamber Orchestra

Wishing you a Bright & Merry Christmas! Adeste Fideles Pavarotti Notre Dame

A delightful fresh composition by Polina Nazaykinskaya - "Winter Bells"

Blow off that Handel’s Messiah and those snowflake sweaters. Wozzeck will get you into the holiday spirit with a vengeance. Dress: Weimar Republic.

Vittorio Grigolo, Star Tenor, Fired for ‘Inappropriate’ Behavior - The New York Times

Vittorio Grigolo, Star Tenor, Fired for ‘Inappropriate’ Behavior - The New York Times

My first visit to the Shed, for Verdi’s Requiem, with MusicAeternna, conducted by Theodore Currentzis.

Bruch: Kol Nidrei ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Mischa Maisky ∙ Paavo Järvi

"Mild und leise wie er lächelt" (Isolde's Liebestod) - sung by Jessye Norman

"Mild und leise wie er lächelt" (Isoldes Liebestod) - YouTube

This evening’s performance of Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera dedicated to Jessye Norman. R.I.P.

Mozart - Overture The Abduction from the Seraglio (K.384) - Wiener Symph...

Mark von Hagen, 65, Dies; Reviewed Times’s 1931 Soviet Coverage - The New York Times

Mark von Hagen, 65, Dies; Reviewed Times’s 1931 Soviet Coverage - The New York Times

Taken in a late August squall, this would be the last time I would see the World Trade Center before September 11, 2001. My home town of Manhasset lost 42 men; my family, a cousin in war.

Hedging their bets? Hitler bust and Nazi flag discovered at French senate | World | The Times

Hitler bust and Nazi flag discovered at French senate | World | The Times

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center after performing Mendelssohn’s Sextet in D major for Piano, Violin, Two Violas, Cello, and Bass, Op. 110 (1824)

Burden on Broadway

Never shy away from a good party - Block Island Sound

8

Preordination at Sea

Small Craft Warning

Franco Zeffirelli, Italian Director With Taste for Excess, Dies at 96 - The New York Times

Franco Zeffirelli, Italian Director With Taste for Excess, Dies at 96 - The New York Times

"They Don't Let You in the Opera" Kelli O'Hara (Michael J Moritz Jr-Cond...

Burghers of New York meet those of Calais ~~~

Evening hours in the sculpture garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The tide predictions for D-Day: Physics Today: Vol 64, No 9

The tide predictions for D-Day: Physics Today: Vol 64, No 9

Giovanni Paisiello by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, playing Nina at the clavichord in the Museo Teatrale alla Scala.

An artist at work at the Pinocoteca Brera Milan

Christine Goerke, as Brünnhilde, snags the flowers after a magnificent Götterdämmerung at the Metropolitan Opera

WWII pilot, who flew nine crewmen to safety before crashing, finally laid to rest - Veterans - Stripes

WWII pilot, who flew nine crewmen to safety before crashing, finally laid to rest - Veterans - Stripes

The Valkyries, Wotan, and Seglinde from last night's Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera

SPARKS by Polina Nazaykinskaya played by Konstantin Soukhovetski. Live r...

Join my Nato or watch critical thinking die - Niall Ferguson | Comment | The Sunday Times U.K.

Join my Nato or watch critical thinking die | Comment | The Sunday Times

Lang Lang told me to practice! Signed during a delightful recital at WQXR's Greenespace down on Charleton Street in New York

The cast of tonight’s La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera, with Maestro Nicola Luisotti and Dir. Michael Mayer

Amy Owens, accompanied by Warren Jones in Großmächtige Prinzessin at the Morgan Library

Bach's Mass in B minor – Dona nobis pacem (Bach Collegium Japan)

‘It Is Unspeakable’: How Maduro Used Cuban Doctors to Coerce Venezuela Voters - The New York Times

‘It Is Unspeakable’: How Maduro Used Cuban Doctors to Coerce Venezuela Voters - The New York Times

Jaime Barton as Fricka, in Das Rheingold last night at the Metropolitan Opera

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Chopin Berceuse Op. 57 D Flat Major

Ambrogio Maestri and the cast of Verdi's Falstaff at the Metropolitan Opera

TANNHÄUSER Vorspiel "Free the Nipples Edition" - Lewdness in Bavaria

Bartabas in Salzburg Marc Minkowski, Conductor (Mozartwoche 2015) Académie Equestre de Versailles

Henry Purcell "Chaconne", "Dido's Lament" - Anna .C. Antonacci, Accademia Degli Astrusi

France Recalls Ambassador to Italy After Minister Meets ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters - The New York Times

France Recalls Ambassador to Italy After Minister Meets ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters - The New York Times

Clementine Margaine, with the cast of Carmen, at the Metropolitan Opera

Anna Caterina Antonacci - Moon River (Savona 2010) composed by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Johnny Mercer

Maestro Cornelius Meister with the cast of Don Giovanni, including Luca Pisaroni in the titular röle, Aida Garifullina as Zerlina, Ildcar Abdrazakov as Leporello, Fredericka Lombardi as Donna Elvira, Rachel Willis-Sørensen as Donna Anna, Brandon Cedel as Masetto, Stanislas de Barbeyrac as Don Ottavio, and Štefan Kocán as the Commendatore.

Angela Denoke and Gerald Finley, with sundry ex/extra wives, in Bluebeard's Castle at the Metropolitan Opera

The Treasure Behind the Wall, Paris - The New York Times

The Treasure Behind the Wall - The New York Times

No-confidence vote: Michael Gove tears into Corbyn with blistering attac...

‘The West Side Rag’ has interviewed me about the the closing of Westsider Rare and Used Books on Broadway.

West Side Rag » Customers Flood Westsider Books on Broadway As Liquidation Begins

West Side Rag » Customers Flood Westsider Books As Liquidation Begins; Owner Wonders If A Fundraiser Could Keep Doors Open

Gustav Mahler - Adagietto from Symphony #5, Cond.| Leonard Bernstein with the Vienna Phil.

Adriana Lecouvreur at the Metropolitan Opera Lincoln Center New York

Sonya Yoncheva as Desdemona in the Metropolitan Opera' s recent production of Otello