Nico Muhly’s Team Spirit
Nico Muhly is certainly the only classical composer who has been covered by both BuzzFeed and The New Yorker, done string arrangements for the likes of Grizzly Bear and Sufjan Stevens, attended Natalie...
View ArticleBeethoven Again
“HONOR TO BEETHOVEN” was the motto that appeared at the top of a program, printed by the Beethoven Quartet Society, in 1845. Over the course of eight weeks, the group of passionate London musicians...
View ArticleClassical Music Isn’t Dead
“Classical music in America is dead.” Those words rang out across the Internet last week; their source, a Slate article written by Mark Vanhoenacker, complete with a gravestone illustration and the...
View ArticlePhilip Smith, Master Trumpeter
There are two kinds of celebrities in the classical-music world. There are your Lang Langs and Gustavo Dudamels—fêted regularly in the Times, selling out a concert hall at a moment’s notice. Then there...
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