A Missa Solemnis to celebrate 125 years of Boston’s Symphony Hall was sophisticated and subdued.
Mahler’s 8th Symphony is an enormous and enigmatic work.
This Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson from breast cancer.
One Saturday afternoon during my freshman year in college, Richard Strauss’s Elektra made me fall in love with Ursula Schröder-Feinen—or maybe vice versa.
For decades thousands and thousands have attended Handel’s Messiah (usually around Christmas or more appropriately near Easter) making it easily one of the most widely known works of classical music.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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