The ABC has a program called The Philosopher's Zone which is often worth hearing. A couple of weeks ago there was a discussion on the ...

There are statues of Robert Burns all over the world, and we have one in The Domain. The sculpture is by Frederick Pomeroy (1856 - 1924), w...

J. Robert Oppenheimer the subject of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic , which I saw at the Met earlier in November, attended school at the Socie...

I haven’t heard much of the music of Krzysztof Penderecki. In 1973 I was greatly impressed by his opera The Devils of Loudun at the ENO in...

I am now familiar with the Met’s production of Madam Butterfly having seen it in the two previous seasons and I wrote about it here last ye...

I’m sure if you stay in New York long enough everything in the world will come to you. Last week the Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theat...

Last year I wrote here about the Franco Zeffirelli production of La Traviata at the Met, and I saw it again, with a different cast, this ye...