A Journey Through Madison's Classical Music Scene
Classically SpeakingMarch 2012
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03/31/12Madison Symphony Wins the BattleDeMain’s orchestra survives Strauss, and occasionally dazzles |
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03/26/12Pro Arte Party Resumes, with Expanded Guest ListPro Arte Quartet centennial season’s third concert features a pair of quintets, one new, one old |
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03/22/12Sweating It Out: University Opera’s Don Giovanni Has More Than the Usual SizzleDirector Farlow and hardy young troops give us a “Giovanni” to believe in. |
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03/19/12Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Proves All of Us Are Lucky This St. Patrick’s DayAndrew Sewell plays the role of leprechaun in assembling a memorably Irish-tinged program |
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03/10/12Madison Symphony Guests Sizzle and DazzleLos Angeles Guitar Quartet a strong draw, but guest conductor Carl St.Clair shines brightest with Madison Symphony |
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!
