A Journey Through Madison's Classical Music Scene
Classically SpeakingApril 2012
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04/30/12Lights…Camera…Rossini!Madison Opera takes Cinderella to Tinseltown — Rossini would probably approve |
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04/26/12Pro Arte Finale: Echoes of a World PremiereSecond performance of Harbison’s String Quartet No. 5 works on radio, too |
04/17/12Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Surprises with “Low-fat” BeethovenAndrew Sewell’s bold gamble pays off — thanks to some marvelous playing and singing |
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Years before I contributed my first classical review to the Los Angeles Times in 1988, I started a class in music appreciation for adults that had one aim: to put a few cracks in the “ivory tower elitism” I found pervasive in the classical music world since my boyhood days. Whether as a critic, program annotator or band director, that goal has never changed. After all, Mozart and Beethoven and the gang wrote their music for people like you—not critics or professors!
