Classical Music

There’s no business like show business, but does that include opera? If in a few years people finally agree that opera is genuinely another...

Lord knows there are a lot of young string quartets out there trying to make an impact on both classical music and the cultural...

Picking through bombastic music to extract the musical message and leave a lingering impression of something other than bombast is a skill to be...

With a program packed with masterpieces from Russian and French composers, Sir Mark Elder conducted the National Symphony Orchestra. Sir Mark Elder opened the night...

The National Chamber Ensemble's joyful annual Happy Holidays concert was the perfect way to spread the wonderful sounds of Christmas and Chanukah. There were performances from talented...

I love choral music. I love the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. I’ve been looking forward to this performance. Everything musical was wonderful during the...

Messiah is perhaps the best known of the German-born but London-settled composer George Frideric Handel. Profoundly religious, the three-part Oratorio moves from the prophecy of...

German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), in his 1949 essay, "Cultural Criticism and Society," claimed, “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric” (transl. by...

Once the energized crowd was seated and ready, Guest Conductor Andrew Clark, (Director of coral activities at Harvard), had us all stand up for...

If there is one thing that those of us in the DC metropolitan area can be sure of when it comes to classical music,...

Metropolitan Ballet Theatre’s 28th annual production of The Nutcracker is a veritable feast for the senses. With a gorgeous array of costumes, a set...

LiveConnection Presents’ evening of Sybarite5 + Jakub Ciupinski treated its World Cafe audience to two exciting young exemplars of new music.  Sybarite5 is a...

There’s a saying that says, “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia most definitely fulfills that...

It was a chilly night, fitting for a change of pace, when the Choral Arts Society of Washington performed Hector Berlioz: Requiem, Op. 5...

On Sunday, November 13, 2016, the pulsating, transcendent and visionary music of the modern musical giant of minimalist music, Philip Glass ---came to vivid...

Some critics go to music performances as a modern day Shakespearean Brutus: They come to bury the performance, not praise it. And, bury it they...

Something of a high-stakes atmosphere pervades this week’s concerts by the National Symphony Orchestra. It’s performing an all-Russian program, always a touchstone harking back...

When I saw Mike Mills of R.E.M. was coming to town, I knew I had to see him because I grew up on his...

The Annapolis Chorale and Annapolis Chamber Orchestra’s performance of Mozart’s Requiem, presented by Live Arts Maryland, was a well-performed clever combination of old and...

The National Chamber Ensemble opened it's 10th season last Saturday at the Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre. The concert called, A Night In Vienna was a...