The Latest on New York Arts

• Yeats’s Ireland – New York Arts and Anthroposophy NYC present a musical reading by Lloyd Schwartz, with James Cleveland, Fiddle, and Dorien Staljanssens, Flute – Friday, June 1, 7pm
    On June 1, 2013, at 7pm, in connection with Michael Miller’s exhibition of photographs, Ireland, and Joanna Gabler’s exhibition of her “transcapes,” Nature and her Essence, the acclaimed poet, Lloyd Schwartz, Senior Classical Music Editor of New York Arts, will read poems by W. B. Yeats and other Irish poets. The reading will be […]
• Shostakovich’s Rediscovered Opera ‘Orango’ and the Fourth Symphony in London
  By the skin of his teeth. As a bizarre offshoot of the workers' paradise, Soviet ideology boasted of creating a New Man, with possible help from the apes — before DNA was discovered, crackpot experiments that involved interbreeding humans with lower primates were conceived. The only success was fictitious, a creature named Orango who began life as a Fre […]
• BSO Appoints Andris Nelsons as its New Music Director
  Given some of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s distinguished elder statesmen music directors—Karl Muck, Pierre Monteux, Serge Koussevitzky, Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf, James Levine—it’s probably surprising that they have appointed 34-year-old Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons to succeed James Levine as the BSO’s 15th music director since 1881. Still, it’s […]
• Siegfried at L’Opéra national de Paris
  L'Opéra national de Paris, like most of the major opera houses around the world, with the notable exception of Bayreuth, have been building their new production of the Ring work by work over several years. I attended their Rheingold in 2010 and reviewed it in the Berkshire Review. Although I found the proleptic reference to Albert Speer's Germania […]
• A Wine Tasting With Tom Meadowcroft
  The seductive and sometimes confusing kaleidoscope of colorful labels on the shelves of wine shops (or on view at online websites) often obscures, to lift some words from an old song, the long and winding road that gets that bottle from the grapevine to you. The physical aspects of the vineyard, weather throughout the growing […]