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...]
Archives for June 2019
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...]