Strathmore, July 24, 2026 • 7:30 p.m. A few notes on last night’s Rachmaninoff concert: I barely made it there, avoid the crushing Beltway. and taking a slow, but pleasant, drive through the Palisades There was a good Friday night turnout, better than the Sunday matinee I previous attended, and there seemed to be a …
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Holy Trinity Catholic Church, GeorgetownJuly 21, 2026 • 7:00 p.m. Last night saw a series of bravura performances by a talented group of young people at Georgetown’s Holy Trinity Church courtesy of Wolf Trap Opera’s Studio Artists. The Georgetown church itself was part of the experience: its chamber-like acoustics were nearly an additional instrument, amplifying …
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Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, K. 16 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Encore: To the Spring (An der Frühling), Op. 43, No. 6 (Edvard Grieg) Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21 (Ludwig van Beethoven) The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Sunday afternoon program paired …
Prova Aperta March 8, 2009 Originally published in Pinball People, March 2009, and re-posted here. Carl Maria von Weber Oberon, Ouverture Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Concerto in E minor, opus 64 for violin and orchestra Robert Schumann Symphony no. 4 in D minor, opus 120 It’s rare that one gets to see the workings of an orchestra …
1 February 2009 Quartetto d’archi della Scala Giacomo Puccini, Crisantemi, elegia per quartetto Giuseppe Verdi, Quartetto in mi min. per archi Giuseppe Verdi, Antologia da “Rigoletto”, arranged for strings by A. Melchiori This originally appeared in Pinball People in February 2009; I’m re-posting here. I was a bit skeptical about going to see a string …
Barns at Wolf Trap • Saturday, June 27, 2026 • 7:30 p.m. As we head towards American 250, I will concede that the Barns at Wolf Trap might be an appropriate setting for Rossini’s La Cenerentola, although I’d have preferred the Kennedy Center. Part of the larger Wolf Trap complex, the performance took place in …
Recent events — or the media imagery thereof — put in my mind an old Thomas Pynchon article, “Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite?” from nearly forty years ago. There’s a photo that could go with this, but it’s far too obvious, so you’ll have to settle for Kong. For readers interested in the …
Back in 1996, fans of lo-fi music, Crain, and Louisville’s particular brand of homegrown rock might’ve been following Experimental Pollen, a short-lived Jon Cook project. As it looked like Crain was about to split up, that small community might’ve paid particular attention to what a possible Crain follow-up would be. Experimental Pollen had a pretty …
On the occasion of the 96th birthday of Martin Luther King this coming Monday, the second movement of Berio’s Sinfonia.
Several years ago, I wrote about an Evergreen show at the 1995 St. Francis Battle of the Bands at the Grand Theater in New Albany in which drummer Britt Walford (Slint, many others) was lifted off the throne, practically still playing. I was thrilled to see that Vice’s Party Legends features an episode with Dave Pajo …
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