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News from the @nytimes newsroom: Robert D. McFadden is retiring after 63 years and 4,200 articles. "Bob set the standard for a gifted generalist capable of delivering a literary synthesis of the most important story of the day under impossible deadline pressure."

What’s missing from “Maestro” nytimes.com/2023/12/22/arts/…

Riccardo Muti called her “without doubt the best Verdi mezzo-soprano today on the planet.” But Anita Rachvelishvili has struggled with vocal problems since her pregnancy two years ago. nytimes.com/2023/12/20/arts/…

Callas at 100 🌞 nytimes.com/2023/11/29/arts/…

James Jorden, 1954-2023, the keeper of the flame. I will miss him a lot. nytimes.com/2023/10/04/arts/…

Christian Thielemann wird ab 2024 die Nachfolge von Daniel Barenboim als Generalmusikdirektor an der @StaatsoperBLN antreten. Das verkündete Senator @ChialoJoe soeben bei der Pressekonferenz vor Ort. Chialo: „Mit ihm sichern wir höchste musikalische Exzellenz für unsere Stadt.“

I reviewed the premiere of Barrie Kosky’s “Rheingold” in London nytimes.com/2023/09/12/arts/…

Join us in wishing Michael Riesman a happy 80th birthday!  Michael has been a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble since 1974, and since has served at its Music Director now for 47 years!  This includes every major premiere by the ensemble since Music in 12 Parts and EINSTEIN ON

visit Charles Busch in his Greenwich Village duplex, where he has a bed fit for Gene Tierney, to talk about his new memoir, "Leading Lady."nytimes.com/2023/09/07/theat…

Diamanda Galás is fierce as ever on the sentence given to the woman who murdered her voice teacher, and the way our society treats the aged

Finally listening to this and David is right: Honeck and Pittsburgh’s Tchaikovsky 5 “gives the symphony all the harrowing drama — the dread, the instability, the vertiginous sense of being on the edge — of a mental breakdown.” nytimes.com/2023/08/31/arts/…

Your guide to the classical fall season! nytimes.com/2023/09/04/arts/…

The indispensable Manny Ax, profiled by ⁦@fafnerthekite⁩. I’ve been guilty of taking him for granted — maybe you have, too. nytimes.com/2023/09/01/arts/…

And, from me, on Hyperion’s belated move into streaming

“The once-lucrative subscription model had been waning for years, but it has fallen off a cliff since the pandemic struck.” nytimes.com/2023/08/29/theat…

After 24 years at the helm, Frank J. Oteri, editor of @NewMusicUSA's multi-media publication NewMusicBox, will be stepping down from his position at the end of August after joining the full-time faculty of @TheNewSchool's College of Performing Arts (which includes the Mannes School of Music). Oteri has been editor of @newmusicbox since it was launched in 1999 at the American Music Center as the first-of-its-kind web magazine, covering the creation of new music across the US by providing a vital platform for creators to speak about issues relevant to them in their own words. NewMusicBox has published over 7,000 stories in the 24 years since, featuring artists from across the musical spectrum, and in written, video and audio formats. @NewMusicUSA will use this period of change to celebrate the vast accomplishments of the publication's past, as well as look toward its future by asking the organization's diverse community of creators, organizations and NewMusicBox readers for feedback on how this resource can best serve them going forward. Read the full news story and Oteri's farewell letter here: newmusicusa.org/newsroom/fra…

“the bearer of perhaps the most famous driver’s license in Los Angeles” ⁦⁦@mehpatrol⁩ is in the passenger seat for the Range Rover ride to Westwood 🚘🔥 nytimes.com/2023/08/24/arts/…

The demise of Lincoln Center as a serious presenter was clear over a year ago nytimes.com/2022/07/20/arts/…