Once again, the Yale Philharmonia delivered a well chosen, brilliantly played concert on Friday, under the direction of guest conductor, Jean-Marie Zeitouni.  The offerings were all French.… Read more “A Leadership of Love/Jean-Marie Zeitouni”

I must admit that when they began the Met HD broadcasts in 2006,  I was worried that fewer people would bother to go the opera house in… Read more “She Broke your Throne and Cut your Hair/MET Samson et Dalila”

Horses, caravans, pageantry…must be AIDA! The 2018-2019 season of the live Met HD broadcasts began Saturday, and it opened with a spectacular production of AIDA that clearly… Read more “Met HD Opens BIG!”

Yale is fortunate enough to have two excellent, full-sized orchestras; The Yale Symphony and The Yale Philharmonia. The Yale Symphony is the largest performance group in the… Read more “A Tale of Two Orchestras”

Once fall sets in, the musical offerings in and around Yale are varied, inexpensive (or free) and they are so frequent, no one can see all that… Read more “Delightfully Overbooked!”

In 1989, Tom Paxton kicked off a concert that was held to raise funds for the Farmington Rail to Trail Association and the CT Fund for the Environment. … Read more “CT Folk”

“When it’s 100 degrees in New York, it is 72 in Los Angeles.  When it is 30 degrees in New York, it is 72 in Los Angeles.… Read more “Dying is Easy. Comedy is Hard.”

Once the school year begins the Yale School of Music goes into overdrive. With two symphony orchestras, an opera company, a chamber music series, lunchtime concerts, a piano… Read more “Yale Institute of Sacred Music”