Greetings and welcome to the Big Apple! For whatever reason you've come–a new career, social aspirations, or a pathological rejection o...

Directed by J. C. Chandor. 2014. Pity the popular director. You might find your heart too hard to make room for Steven Spielberg, Christop...

Surprised the psychedelic vibe of Bachstock appealed to me? I am. The idea of naming a celebration of Bach's corpus of work–the apog...

Giving voice to unrestrained scorn is one of the chief pleasures of life. No need to moderate or burnish one's arguments and no caveats...

Since the Archdiocese of New York's parish consolidation initiative spurred speculation about the closing of Holy Innocents , much ha...

You can surely learn much about someone by the way he conducts himself, but you can perhaps learn even more by examining his expectatio...

Yesterday was the first of the vernal season on which the sun and wind could both agree to warm us in their springtime hands. The Central P...

New York is supposed to be a rough and tumultuous place. In my experience it has not been so and in these twenty eight years of Big Apple c...

Avery Fisher Hall. August 23, 2013.  It is often boasted that the arts are for everyone and likewise touted that more young people ought t...

New Yorkers are __________ that Anthony Weiner is running for mayor. Your choices are: outraged, insulted, stupefied, or shocked. They'...

Something curious happened to many NYC neighborhoods during the last five or so years. Houses once characterized by aluminum awnings, concr...

Reflecting again on my recent Met excursion, I recall another telling moment which occurred upon entry. As the first of the party to arri...

spoilers I step into a room built of cardboard boxes. At its center stand two tables, for cards and pool, and making my way between I inv...

This week I spent three days on jury service. It is of aesthetic crimes, however, that I wish to speak. The court sits a horrendous glass-a...

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. The Monteverdi Choir. Conducted by  Sir John Eliot Gardiner.  Carnegie Hall. November 17, 2012. ...

Iván Fischer I just stepped in from my first Mostly Mozart concert of the season. I do not know who programmed the Ave Verum Corpus ,...

I just finished reading Jay Nordlinger's New York Chronicle review of the 2010 Mostly Mozart Festival in the  September issue of The Ne...

So passes another summer and so another Mostly Mozart Festival, now in its 43rd year. Being a relatively young man this was but the second...

The 2009-10 season at the Metropolitan Opera promises great things. After a hiatus, the Met is again performing a German-language version of...