Gamelan Summary

Forget that great tree at Rockefeller Center: We dance-lovers know it must be Christmas because Alvin Ailey’s at the City Center and The Nutcracker’s at the State. Year in, year out, th... Read more

On Feb. 23 at Carnegie Hall, the American Composers Orchestra gave three pieces of music their world premiere and, in so doing, provided a reunion of sorts for two well-traveled musicians. Film com... Read more

Ten years ago, many critics (and at least a few sane people, too) thought that rock had breathed its last. The early-90’s grunge wave had crested and broken, leaving behind lots of second- a... Read more

Opera, it might be said, is a kind of madhouse: Musically, it pushes vocal capacities to the breaking point; dramatically, its protagonists are often in the grip of something so grievous that suici... Read more