March 26, 2020
Review: Carmen and the Staging of Spain (Michael Christoforidis & Elizabeth Kertesz)
How the Belle Époque saw Bizet’s free-spirited heroine.
March 26, 2020
Review: The Song Remains the Same (Andrew Ford & Anni Heino)
The history of the song, well at least for the last 800 years.
March 23, 2020
Review: The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America (Melissa D. Burrage)
How a whispering campaign sent a German conductor to jail.
March 18, 2020
Review: Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Composer and Critic
Wide-ranging portrait captures both music and words.
December 1, 2019
Review: I Have a Song to Sing (Viola Tait, edited by Elizabeth Kumm)
Unique memories from Gilbert & Sullivan to JC Williamson Ltd.
December 1, 2019
Review: So what does a conductor do? (Nicholas Braithwaite)
Braithwaite’s insider story is straight from the horse’s mouth.
September 1, 2019
Review: The Ripples Before the New Wave (Robyn Dalton & Laura Ginters)
How SUDS created James, Greer, Beresford, Hughes et al.
September 1, 2019
Review: Ottorino Respighi: His Life and Times (Michael Webb)
Much of Respighi’s mystery remains, despite pioneering work.
August 1, 2019
Review: Bow to Baton: A Leader’s Life (John Georgiadis)
Former LSO leader dishes the dirt on maestros great and small.