Culture
“Two Pianos” Is a Textured Contemporary Melodrama with Classic-Hollywood Restraint
Mathias is staying with his mother, Anna (Anne Kessler), in the apartment where he grew up, and chance intervenes again: walking through a…
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classical music
Culture
When a Man Loves a Cello
In January, 2022, the British cellist Steven Isserlis was walking to a professional engagement when catastrophe struck. The skies opened.…
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When the Man Tried to Sell Minimalism to the Counterculture
“The Man can’t bust our music,” an advertisement in the underground newspaper Berkeley Barb proclaimed, in November, 1968. The…
Culture
Can Dave Hurwitz Save Classical Recording?
Hurwitz, however, is undaunted by such matters. For one thing, he is not troubled by the notion that children will be lost to classical…