Category Archives: A Little Night Music

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 →

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 →

The bel canto superstar urges the music of her madness toward its climax; she takes aim at the stratospheric E-flat on which much of her renown rests, scores a bull’s- eye; the audience, its own blood throbbing to every nuance … Continue reading →

It may well be true, as a colleague pointed out in last Sunday’s L.A.Times, that the Beethoven glut has reached the point of absurdity, that the hundred-or-so available recordings of the Fifth Symphony are 95-or-so too many. It is equally … Continue reading →