Diary of Musical Thoughts

 More and more examples have cropped up where my steadfast opinions have slowly eroded over decades.  Songs I disliked in the 1980's (Ph...

I listened to a lot of holiday music over Christmas weekend.  Binging on Spotify playlists, I found myself surprisingly moved by the Bing Cr...

This would be the eighth in a series of albums that I haven't heard in over twenty years, since the start of this blog in January 2020. ...

This was the first post-COVID major performance for this orchestra, and everyone involved was thrilled and relieved to return to some sembla...

The IPO came up with a genius marketing plot to offer a first rate concert for the bargain price of 85 NIS as part of their 85th anniversary...

When I was first encountering recorded classical music in the 1980's (mainly on cassette tape!), Haitink and von Karajan were the defaul...

I used to hate genre labels.  Privately, I wanted to hatch a master plan to eliminate them completely.  These labels are supposed to divide ...

The upcoming premiere of Beethoven's 10th symphony has been making headlines this week, I first learned about it through this feature at...

 The Rolling Stones' drummer was arguably the biggest paradox in rock.  He was a core member of inarguably the most successful (financia...

If you were a Britophile living in North America in the 90's, the story was a familiar one.   Once they'd had some success in the UK...