A Journey Through Madison's Classical Music Scene
Classically SpeakingDecember 2012
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12/20/12The Really Last Minute Classical Gift ListJust a few ideas available via internet while you’re stuck indoors |
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12/10/12Dance Wisconsin’s “Nutcracker Fantasy”: Tchaikovsky with Stocking StuffersDance Wisconsin’s take on the perennial chestnut is engaging, visually and musically |
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12/03/12'Madison Symphony Christmas' Full of Large GiftsDeMain’s 19th version of holiday music satisfies with familiar fare and unexpected pleasures |
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!
