Of all the unexpected connections to emerge from Emanuel Ax’s recital at Jordan Hall on Sunday afternoon, perhaps the most surprising came from the pianist himself. Introducing Arnold Schoenberg’s ...
In fact, several of them fully warrant attention, particularly the triptych of political satires Gershwin cooked up with his ...
Take it from Hector Berlioz: organ and orchestra shouldn’t mix. “The organ and the orchestra are both Kings, or rather one is Emperor and the other Pope,” the Gallic master wrote in his Treatise on ...