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Days ago, European classical music enthusiasts started tweeting that Beethoven’s authorship of Für Elise was being questioned in the European media. Italian musicologist Luca Chiantore is going public with the theory that Ludwig Nohl realized the piece...
A public celebration of Michael Steinberg, the prolific musicologist who died in July, will be held on the campus of the University of Minnesota on Sunday, October 4. If I can find a link to a radio broadcast, I’ll add it to this page.
To me, Michael...
“He’s not second rate. He’s third rate.”
– Franco Zeffirelli in anticipation of Luc Bondy’s new Tosca at the Met.
“I’m a third-rate director, and he is a second assistant of Visconti.”
– Luc Bondy, on Franco Zeffirelli, following the opening night...