Profile
A profile of Cenk Ergün.
What it’s like playing for a stream in an empty Miller Theatre.
Philip Thomas configures the moment.
Early music is Gwendolyn Toth’s religion.
Cameron Carpenter and the feedback loop of notoriety.
Alan Hollinghurst on music.
An interview with the legendary agent Jasper Parrott.
Essay
Censorship, political correctness, and the legacy of “America’s Troubadour.”
Remembering Linda Shaver-Gleason.
A music critic listens with depression.
A Longtime Assistant Remembers Mariss Jansons.
On listening to music while airborne.
The surprising progressivism of Paul Dukas.
How ambient is changing classical music.
Comment
The high-stress, low-reward world of the page turner.
Tracing Beethoven’s Ninth through the Brexit debacle.
Classical musicians in a culture war.
How did the repertoire become so narrow?
What opera should be learning from the movies.
Anna Netrebko’s defense of blackface.
What’s next for Barenboim and the Staatsoper?
Report
How the crisis will tectonically change classical music.
The aesthetic campaigning of Against Modern Opera Productions.
How the artist manager Xenia Evangelista converts hope into cash.
18 years after they were first reported, allegations of sexual harassment at the Butler School of Music continue.
How the artist manager Xenia Evangelista converts hope into cash.
How the artist manager Xenia Evangelista converts hope into cash.
How the artist manager Xenia Evangelista converts hope into cash.
Playlist
And wound up hating Mozart.
Classical music in the world’s next superpower.
What would singers do without them?
Happy 250th!
A corrective to the 2018 Oscars Original Score shortlist.
The trombonist and composer’s formative years.
The top 10 composers who only wrote one famous piece.
Bagatelle
Unpacking the Instagram score-studying aesthetic.
Who’s Your Conductor Soul Mate?
What classical music gets up to on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
What classical music gets up to on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
What classical music gets up Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
What classical music gets up to on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
What classical music gets up to on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Intro
Sounds and wanderings by the composer Kristina Wolfe.
Empathy and perception with the composer Sky Macklay.
Katherine Balch dives into plant sounds, nonlinear novels, humming, and shivering.
Cult appeal and the universe with the composer Dylan Mattingly.
Procrastination and the search for simplicity with the composer Natalie Draper.
Scoring Hong Kong film and arranging Harry Partch.
Playing Chopin and poker, at home and abroad.
Photo & Video
A photo essay from Thessia Machado’s studio.
Where do piano tuners spend their days?
Listening to Kim Jong-il’s operas.
A photo essay from an organ builder’s workshop.
Matt Haimovitz
Matt Haimovitz in Sarasota, Florida.
Matt Haimovitz in Cormons, Italy.
Matt Haimovitz in Fishtail, Montana.
Two Sides of a Concert
Who loved it, who hated it – Seth MacFarlane at the San Francisco Symphony.
Who loved it, who hated it – “Girls of the Golden West.”
Who loved it, who hated it – “Elektra” at the Deutsche Oper.
Design Review
Two graphic designers on new classical album covers.
Literature
A poem by David Ferry, in sound.