OUSSAMA ZAHR There may have been no harder hitting one-two punch in music this year than Julius Eastman’s “Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc,” a harrowing solo vocal work ...
Naysayers be damned. Classical music on record continues to thrive, or so it seems judging from the plethora of boxed sets that have come our way this year. As ever, milestone birthdays were ...
By Joshua BaroneCorinna da Fonseca-WollheimZachary Woolfe and Oussama Zahr The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review. Here is what hooked ...
It's the headline violinists, bassoonists and bangers of big expensive drums look for each year: classical music is back, and young people like it again. To be fair, the data mostly checks out ...