Noteworthy

Verdi vs. Shakespeare

With ‘Macbeth’ It’s a Draw

Concert for Cab Drivers

Concerto in the Key of G, for Grateful

Read About It; Order It

Venerable Classical-Music Magazine Plans to Add Online Sales to Its Reviews

About language

When Language Can Hold the Answer

St. George's Day

12 recipes for St George's Day

"Quel jour de fête" indeed!!

A rule just asking to be broken:

Ban on Solo Encores at the Met? Ban, What Ban?

Tenors

It's sort of sad that the current crop of tenors on the international opera scene are making tenor jokes obsolete.

But not too sad.

Frisky Young Tenors on Operatic War Horses

Something NOT about music

I'm usually finding interesting musical things in the New York Times, but this appealed to my ancestry research interest.

U.S. Name Count

The Unknown Stravinsky

Maybe I'm a little more sensitive to the issue, but it has always bothered me that so many otherwise well-informed people have accepted as gospel all of Robert Craft's fabricated "famous quotes" from Stravinsky.

Here it is called an "open secret," something that would have earned student a failing grade when I was in college, if he had the temerity to even suggest it.

Oh! And the info about the songs is really fascinating.

In Stravinsky’s Songs, the True Man, No Ghostwriters

“Unravelling Bolero”

Boléro: 'Beautiful symptom of a terrible disease'