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Justin Davidson

February 13, 2012 | The Classical Music Review
The Machine in the Garden

Thoughts on the new “Ring” — and on the state of Peter Gelb’s Metropolitan.

February 6, 2012 | Features
A Park to Remember a Plague

0.38 acres. 100,000 New Yorkers who died of AIDS. 475 architects’ entries. A first look at the results.

February 6, 2012 | The Classical Music Review
Had I Never Listened Closely Enough?

On trying to like Philip Glass, again and again and again.

January 30, 2012 | Feature
It Ain’t Necessarily...

Musical? Opera? Rapture? Travesty? Two critics on the remade Porgy and Bess.

January 2, 2012 | Feature
What Does a Conductor Do?

A critic decides to find out—by stepping up to the podium himself.

December 19, 2011 |
22. Because the Skyline Is Soaring Again.

A living city can’t hibernate for long.

December 12, 2011 |
The Year in Classical Music

Perfect Janácek, Soviet cartoon scores, and alfresco drums.

December 12, 2011 |
The Jimmy Question

With transitions in the air all over town, the Met considers life after Levine. Reluctantly.

November 28, 2011 | Feature
Less Really Is More

SHoP Architects, masters of post-boom buildability.

November 21, 2011 | The Classical Music Review
The Hook of Mormon

“Keep sweet,” sing the five wives of Nico Muhly’s opera Dark Sisters. If only I could.

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