- 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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