A Journey Through Madison's Classical Music Scene
Classically SpeakingFebruary 2013
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02/28/13Middleton Community Orchestra: “Rising Stars” (and High Aspirations)Conductor Steve Kurr and his willing group make their case for their niche in our concert life |
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02/22/13The Most Successful Composer You Never Heard of Is HereUW Wind Ensemble strikes up the band Saturday night for Steven Bryant |
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02/09/13Madison Symphony Delivers Three Proofs of an Old Artistic AxiomCellist Alban Gerhardt returns to take on Prokofiev; DeMain offers “new” Ravel and classic Beethoven |
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!
