Here’s why the NY Phil was stupid and arrogant to let Alan Gilbert go

This is an extraordinary concert. Works by John Adams, Thomas Adès (Kirill Gerstein, soloist), György Ligeti (in an encore), and Esa-Pekka Salonen, with Alan Gilbert conducting the NDR Elbphilharmonie. A program booklet may be found here.

Best Wishes for the Season

Listening List

Best wishes for the holiday season, and here’s to better times ahead.

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Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131 (1826)

Three Fall Walks in Ulster County

Testimonial Gateway Carriage Road, Mohonk Preserve

This fall seems to have come late, with the oaks now ascendant. In the past few days we raced out before clouds overtook the sun to visit three of our favorite walks in Ulster County, New York.

Dylan Mattingly’s Barbaric Yawp

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

—Walt Whitman

About Dylan Mattingly’s Sunt Lacrimae Rerum:

Bach and the River

Hudson River from the Walkway over the Hudson