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A 1904 Viennese ball with admirers thronging anti-Semitic Mayor Karl Lueger.

The Philadelphia Orchestra's Vienna Festival

A melting pot that periodically boiled over

On its surface, Vienna seems to be the epitome of romance and good times. Underneath lies a troubling past that is recognized by Yannick Nézet-Séguin in a multifaceted festival.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 4 minute read
Bowie as the Thin White Duke, Toronto, 1976. (Photo by Jean-Luc via Creative Commons/Flickr)

David Bowie: An appreciation

Celebrating the alien

Ziggy Stardust’s strange, androgynous appearance held a strong fascination for a teenager just beginning to realize how different he was in other ways. For me, as for most teenagers, music played a crucial role in building an identity, and David Bowie played an important part in my early search for self.
Gary L. Day

Gary L. Day

Articles 4 minute read
A Van Cliburn for the 21st century: Jan Lisiecki. (Photo by Mathias Bothor)

The Philadelphia Orchestra with pianist Jan Lisiecki

Exploring the beauty and tumult of Vienna

The music in this concert of Viennese pastry reflected both of the faces of Vienna: It was romantically sweet but with a bitter crust. Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, while exploiting the rich sound of the Philadelphia Orchestra to bring out the grand sonorities, also conveyed Vienna’s underlying disturbances and tensions.
Victor L. Schermer

Victor L. Schermer

Articles 5 minute read
Whatever happened to Leon Kirchner?

PCMS presents the Orion Quartet with Richard Woodhams

Back from the break

Richard Woodhams joined the Orion Quartet for the Chamber Music Society’s first concert of the new year, which was varied and mostly satisfying but featured a Beethoven shorn of its edge.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 4 minute read
Like seeing the Beatles at Yankee Stadium: Christian Tetzlaff. (Photo by Giorgia Bertazzi via christian-tetzlaff.de)

Luisi and Tetzlaff with the Philadelphia Orchestra

The rockstar reception of violinist Christian Tetzlaff

Conductor Fabio Luisi is an opera man and violinist Christian Tetzlaff has a singing tone, so their collaboration on the Tchaikovsky Concerto in D major was memorable.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 2 minute read
Turn and face the strange. (Image by Cole Henley via Creative Commons/Flickr)

David Bowie and classic rock’s death knells

David Bowie's death gets Craig Peters thinking about how other rock greats have sung about the Ultimate Question.
Craig Peters

Craig Peters

Articles 4 minute read
Finding meaning, hope, and forward movement: Jeanne Krausman. (Photo courtesy of the author)

Meet Jeanne Krausman

A long musical life

She gave herself a “musical Bat Mitzvah” at 83, followed, at 85, by seven consecutive daily performances of a short living room recital. Jeanne Krausman was preparing for her final concert, at 89, when fate intervened.
Maria Thompson Corley

Maria Thompson Corley

Articles 4 minute read
David Bowie, the Serious Moonlight Tour, c. 1983. Photo by Jeffchat1 via Creative Commons.

Three things I learned from David Bowie

Kile Smith accepts David Bowie's "serious moonlight" invitation.
Kile Smith

Kile Smith

Articles 5 minute read
A “scientific” conductor — whatever that meant: Pierre Boulez. (Photo by Harald Hoffmann via classicalmusicmagazine.org)

Pierre Boulez: An appreciation

Boulez est mort

Boulez infamously declared, in 1952, that “any musician who has not experienced — I do not say understood, but truly experienced — the necessity of dodecaphonic music is useless.” I have always relished his gleeful courage, his delight in the new, his call to push boundaries outward as a kind of artistic imperative.

Articles 4 minute read
Cole in 2007 (Photo by dbking via Creative Commons/Wikimedia)

Natalie Cole: An appreciation

What set Natalie Cole apart from the other popsters trying to make like Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett was her depth, her sincerity, and her understanding of the lyric and where it came from — all of which came, in part, from her father’s example.
Bruce Klauber

Bruce Klauber

Articles 3 minute read