The Music of Elliott Goldkind

“There’s a widespread idea in the general culture that classical music is “smart,” and that it requires a certain amount of knowledge to appreciate. And yet the level on which it’s generally apprehended, as outlined above, is not particularly smart at all.”
via The Classical Beat – Form and content.
I actually don’t agree with a good [...]

Alan Gilbert takes over the New York Philharmonic : The New Yorker.
This is an exciting development, and of course one that makes me wish I could spend more time in Avery Fisher, not to mention in NYC in general.  It would be nice if the NYPhil could become a significant force in modern music again.