Profile
Alan Gilbert starts fresh.
Unsuk Chin suffers for her art.
Andrew Manze’s committed spontaneity.
Paul Lewis makes his Berlin Philharmonic debut.
The provocations of Frederic Rzewski.
An Interview with Laurie Anderson
The novelist Garth Greenwell on singing, literature, and the physicality of language.
Essay
The loss and rediscovery of Croatia’s groundbreaking electroacoustic music scene.
The radical commitment of Pablo Casals.
On Tippet Rise, a classical music festival on Native American land.
Opera owes its heritage to the Middle East. Why do we silence this legacy?
Bang on a Can, “Arthur,” and the avant-garde music meme factory.
Transcendence and frustration, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
Listening to Simon Rattle’s goodbye concert in Berlin.
Comment
Anna Netrebko’s defense of blackface.
What’s next for Barenboim and the Staatsoper?
A satire, a lawsuit, and a thin-skinned violinist.
The decline of one of America’s great composers.
A concert protests the weaponization of atonal music.
What happened to an entire generation of promising composers?
What happened to an entire generation of promising composers?
Report
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.
How the artist manager Xenia Evangelista converts hope into cash.
Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic have had enough.
Artist managers are routinely subject to sexual harassment and economic exploitation.
Artist managers are routinely subject to sexual harassment and economic exploitation.
Playlist
The sounds of the composer and artist’s “obsessive aesthetic fence-straddling.”
Classical music in the world’s next superpower.
What would singers do without them?
And wound up hating Mozart.
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.