Diary of Musical Thoughts

Along comes another rich guy with Mahlerian dreams of grandeur who lives out his fantasies by paying a princely sum to conduct a leading orc...

Here is the first line of Brian Wilson's obit in the NYT :  Brian Wilson, who as the leader and chief songwriter of the Beach Boys becam...

According to his bio, Koncz is a young conductor who seems to gravitate toward classical and early Romantic music, setting him apart from ma...

This year's event had nearly everything you could ask for—extraordinary performances, impressive spectacles, and a tight race that came ...

I watched the nearly six-hour FireAid special on Netflix, and I don't really want to critique it because the audiences obviously enjoyed...

This might seem like an unusual topic for a history podcast, but co-host Dominic Sandbrook wrote his doctorate on American politics in the 1...

(It's been a while since my last post, and that's because I have undertaken a listening marathon while quietly compiling these 5000 ...

Putting aside the egregious editing mistake in the header -- note that this is a singles list, not a songs list -- this is a rare 90's ...

Tonight's concert was wonderfully varied and was headlined by the sensational Martha Argerich playing Shostakovich's Piano Concerto ...

I was surprised to see an album by the fourth best act from the second most famous 90's Bristol scene featured in Pitchfork's Sunda...