Music, like perfume, can be a straight shunt into the nervous system, a slamming retour of things past, a quick connecting point to otherwise lost time.  On music, one can alight on one’s past in the most general and yet most specifically...

The erudite and comprehensive liner notes for the Masterworks Broadway 50th Anniversary Edition of The Sound of Music open with the arresting quote: “Audrey Hepburn as Maria von Trapp?” Hooked me, that’s for sure. The notes detail how the...

Maury Yeston is a real composer, equally invested in writing for the Broadway Stage and his own version of the concert hall, as anyone who has ever heard his complex, haunting song cycle December Songs can attest. He wrote the musicals Titanic...

t is raining. It is cold. I am woefully behind on everything I have to do because the cleaning of the office slotted to take just under three hours (in my febrile mind) took most of the weekend (though honestly, you should see it in here…). I’m...

So I’ve been really obsessed with listening to Rudolf Serkin’s Essential (like I said blogs ago, I never really went in for best-of’s, being something of a snob, but now I’m convinced they are not only useful and instructive but actually small...