Let’s All Boycott The Death of Klinghoffer

by | Oct 22, 2014 | Uncategorized

Is there any possible reason why an opera with this power and deeply moral message should be protested?Protests raged the other night when the opera The Death of Klinghoffer by John Adams was performed at the Metropolitan Opera.  It is good to protest operas that...

When Composers Need Promotion

by | Oct 5, 2014 | Uncategorized

Carl Nielsen I always feel a little suspicious when the works of a particular composer need “promotion,” don’t you? The first such composer who comes to mind is Paul Hindemith. Back in the 1940s, my parents attended some meetings of a Hindemith Society in New...