Pablo Casals

Review: 'Reinventing Bach' by Paul Elie casts a wide net

2012-09-30 00:00:00

-------------------- Reinventing Bach Paul Elie Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 498 pp., $30.00 -------------------- Halfway through reading Paul Elie's "Reinventing Bach," I suddenly got dizzy. An earthquake? All-purpose angst? Or could it be that Bach...

The 100 cellos of the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival

2012-03-19 21:32:20

Madrid to Barcelona in a flash

2010-01-17 00:00:00

When President Obama announced plans in April to spend $13 billion in federal stimulus funds on developing high-speed rail in America, he invoked the usual role models -- Japan, China and France -- as examples of fast-train culture. He also praised...

PASSINGS: Bernard Greenhouse

2011-05-15 00:00:00

Bernard Greenhouse Cellist, founding member of Beaux Arts Trio Bernard Greenhouse, 95, an acclaimed cellist and founding member of the prominent chamber music group Beaux Arts Trio, died Friday at his Massachusetts home on Cape Cod, his family said. At...

Album review: New York Dolls' 'Dancing Backward in High Heels'

2011-03-14 21:34:46

Jasper Johns is first studio artist in 34 years to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

2011-02-14 16:33:03

Music review: Rohan de Saram at the Colburn Schoolâ€™s Zipper Hall

2010-05-16 21:32:58

The emerging young musicians of iPalpiti

2010-07-17 16:33:07

Monster mash: JFK White House concerts redux; no fall season for ABT; Games give gallery a boost

2010-03-03 16:32:52

Presidential powers don't extend to pop culture.

2009-01-18 00:00:00

We're asking a lot of Barack Obama, just to right the sinking ship of American politics. Can we expect him to save American culture as well? Can a president spin that much gossamer from his oratory? Can the American people make better books, movies and...

Mitchell Lurie dies at 86; world-renowned clarinetist taught at USC

2008-11-30 00:00:00

Mitchell Lurie, a world-renowned clarinetist and clarinet teacher who taught for many years at USC and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, has died. He was 86. Lurie, who had been in ill health in recent years, died of pneumonia Monday at his...

Man of the Streets, in Three Suites

2005-12-04 00:00:00

First Suite: The Apartment He's a lucky man, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers. At least in some ways. Despite the imagined voices and daily flutter of scattered thoughts, he has a burning passion. For him, the city is an orchestra, a labyrinth of musical...

Pablo Casals conducts.

2010-01-13 15:58:37

A watercolor painted in the late 1800s of the music room in Karl Wittgenstein's home, a gathering place for the Vienna elite. Young Paul Wittgenstein grew up hearing Johannes Brahms playing the piano and Pablo Casals performing cello sonatas.

2002-08-09 09:45:04