Monthly Archives: February 1998

Here’s a letter, one of many. Its writer – whom I’ll identify only by noting that we have the same initials – has been rendered morose by my words that suggest a negative reaction to music closer to his heart … Continue reading →

Well, that was more like it. After a season pretty far down in the operatic dumps so far, our aspiring if not yet perfect company has rediscovered enchantment at the most likely fountainhead, the music of Mozart. Last week’s Magic … Continue reading →

Caught up in the charms of Ervin Schulhoff’s First String Quartet – as played by the Petersen Quartet at the Doheny Mansion last week in one of the Da Camera Society’s “Chamber Music and Historic Sites” concerts – I found … Continue reading →

Any critic worthy to wield a poisoned pen must be obsessed these days with drawing up lists: major events and masterworks of the decade, century and millennium now oozing toward their closure. I am not prepared to predict that Benjamin … Continue reading →