I'm so sorry to report that our good friend Scott has passed away this week. Scott's family and friends have set up a GoFundMe page. Please consider contributing. More later. … [Read more...]
Archives for 2019
Ojai Music Festival and JACK Quartet
ONE of the best things about spring in Southern California is the Ojai Music Festival, which runs this Thursday to Sunday. I’m looking forward to this year’s festival, which was programmed by soprano Barbara Hannigan. Ojai is – in my two decades of attending most years – always good and sometimes great. It reminds us that classical music, for all the enduring work of the past, is a living art, … [Read more...]
What’s in a Name?
This is the second in a series of posts by guest blogger Milton Moore, a longtime music critic who has covered a wide array of genres. * * * When Scott invited me to write about the new music I was sharing with him, we immediately faced a dilemma: What to call this stuff? Some of this might slip into the classical bin, but it doesn’t really target the Mozart audience … [Read more...]
Time Pauses For Valentin Silvestrov
A quarter century ago, a New England journalist named Milton Moore turned me – a lover of rock and jazz without much interest in music before Elvis Presley and Charlie Parker – on to Schubert, late Beethoven, and The Well-Tempered Clavier. Milton, who has been reviewing music, classical and otherwise, since the ‘70s, today starts a more-or-less monthly column about contemporary and … [Read more...]