New music
Yuval Sharon takes on opera’s future.
A profile of Cenk Ergün.
Philip Thomas configures the moment.
How ambient is changing classical music.
The permanent revisions of Peter Eötvös.
Unsuk Chin suffers for her art.
The formative sounds and experiences of composer Pauline Oliveros.
Music the profession
Fear, anger, and harassment at the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe.
A century apart, symmetrical cases of sexual harassment in opera.
An interview with Berlin Philharmonic artistic director Andrea Zietzschmann.
In Taiwan, an orchestra plays by COVID rules.
James Levine is suing the Met. No matter what, both parties lose.
After 19 years of sexual harassment allegations, Dan Welcher has been fired.
An orchestra stares into the financial abyss.
Political art
On Tippet Rise, a classical music festival on Native American land.
Yuval Sharon takes on opera’s future.
Tracing Beethoven’s Ninth through the Brexit debacle.
Censorship, political correctness, and the legacy of “America’s Troubadour.”
A dual history of racism and the music of nature at ease.
How did the repertoire become so narrow?
The provocations of Frederic Rzewski.
Weird and wonderful
Yes, every single one.
A satire, a lawsuit, and a thin-skinned violinist.
Classical musicians in a culture war.
And wound up hating Mozart.
New classical music memes are actually funny.
Happy 250th!
An interview with the founder of IMSLP.
Opera
A century apart, symmetrical cases of sexual harassment in opera.
Two Met orchestra musicians. Zero paychecks.
Yuval Sharon takes on opera’s future.
Christian Gerhaher doesn’t want to entertain.
Exploring bisexuality through opera.
An orchestra stares into the financial abyss.
The surprising progressivism of Paul Dukas.
Soloists and conductors
James Levine is suing the Met. No matter what, both parties lose.
Cameron Carpenter and the feedback loop of notoriety.
A Longtime Assistant Remembers Mariss Jansons.
Alan Gilbert starts fresh.
Paul Lewis makes his Berlin Philharmonic debut.
Kirill Gerstein’s marathon career.
The intensity of Daniil Trifonov.
Women and non-binary composers
Unsuk Chin suffers for her art.
The formative sounds and experiences of composer Pauline Oliveros.
An interview with the composer Betsy Jolas.
An interview with the composer Ashley Fure.
Meredith Monk translates biological process into a new language.
On Borealis, an experimental festival for music.
A corrective to the 2018 Oscars Original Score shortlist.
Personal essay
On listening to music while airborne.
Exploring bisexuality through opera.
A music critic listens with depression.
When the concert stage becomes a trigger for trauma, and what to do about it.
Is the prevalence of suicide in opera harmful or healing?
There is no absolution in art or life. A dispatch from Bayreuth.
Remembering Klaus Huber.
Strings
Where did classical music’s most famous label go wrong?
Roberto González-Monjas and his painstaking preparation.
Alina Ibragimova wants it darker.
An interview with the cellist Steven Isserlis.
Why studies questioning the Stradivarius myth are so persuasive.
An interview with the new JACK Quartet cellist Jay Campbell.
What one octogenarian performer’s experience reveals about getting old in the music business.
Early music
The niche appeal of a historical diminution competition.
Yes, every single one.
Early music is Gwendolyn Toth’s religion.
Christian Gerhaher doesn’t want to entertain.
Vicente Lusitano and classical music’s selective memory.
Alina Rotaru wants to change the notes.
Pierre Hantaï teaches himself.
The voice
Christian Gerhaher doesn’t want to entertain.
Censorship, political correctness, and the legacy of “America’s Troubadour.”
The formative sounds and experiences of composer Pauline Oliveros.
Saul Williams’s words to music.
Mark Padmore wants attention and intention.
An interview with an opera casting director.
The sounds of the composer and artist’s “obsessive aesthetic fence-straddling.”
Literature and film
Books on the human relationships complicating the soloist’s life.
Alan Hollinghurst on music.
Four new books bring music back to the world.
What opera should be learning from the movies.
The novelist Garth Greenwell on singing, literature, and the physicality of language.
Daniel Mendelsohn on music.
Issue #96 focuses on process.
Queer
Exploring bisexuality through opera.
The formative sounds and experiences of composer Pauline Oliveros.
The novelist Garth Greenwell on singing, literature, and the physicality of language.
On the sexual politics of musical metaphors.
“The Gender Agenda,” a musical gameshow by Philip Venables.
Ione completes an opera by her late partner Pauline Oliveros.
On the New York premiere of “Three Way.”
Illness
What it’s like playing for a stream in an empty Miller Theatre.
A music critic listens with depression.
When the concert stage becomes a trigger for trauma, and what to do about it.
Is the prevalence of suicide in opera harmful or healing?
How the crisis will tectonically change classical music.
Small concert promoters salvage the future.
What one octogenarian performer’s experience reveals about getting old in the music business.
Music under Putin
Russian classical music’s money machine.
How Teodor Currentzis became a Russian sex symbol.
On the impact of Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Behind the hype of Teodor Currentzis.
The liberation of the Syrian city of Palmyra from ISIS by Russian forces called for a celebration. But this was no ordinary open air concert.
Faced with a hostile government, new, improvised music in Russia is flourishing on the fringe.
Perfect Pitch
Is a popular perfect pitch course a revelation or a scam?
Is a popular perfect pitch course a revelation or a scam?
Is a popular perfect pitch course a revelation or a scam?
Is a popular perfect pitch course a revelation or a scam?
Is a popular perfect pitch course a revelation or a scam?
Is a popular perfect pitch course a revelation or a scam?
Musicology
Remembering Linda Shaver-Gleason.
Susan McClary wants to debate the music.
An interview with the journalist and musicologist William Robin on “a scene without a name.”