Happy Birthday J. S. Bach - life would be so diminished without him. There must've been something in the stars in 1685.... Kaffeekantate BWV 211 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Michael Stephen Brown at Alice Tully Hall does Hans Von Bülow one better - flawless hours of Ravel, Debussy, Haydn, Liszt, etc., and his own composition without a score! Have any of you ever seen a pianist change socks at intermission? Have you ever heard of Delphine Von Schauroth, apparently an old flame of Mendelssohn's?

 

A fine evening of music making in the Model Room, with Chad Fischer, composer at the guitar, Nathan Meltzer and Mira Wang, violins, Ulrich Eichenauer, viola, and Jan Vogler, cello.

 

The Zeffirelli Turandot is still delightful!

 

The General Manager of Carnegie Hall welcoming the Vienna Philharmonic with Maestro Franz Welser-Möst. An effusively romantic Bruckner 9, followed by Alban Berg’s agita from Three Pieces for Orchestra , Op. 6. made you want to seek out W. H. Auden in one of the dives on 52nd. street.