• Making the Planets Shine in Indianapolis by Curtis Rittenhouse

    Last year the Gramophone published an issue looking at the most promising up-and-coming young conductors around the world. Afterwards a reader wrote protesting the omission of Kyzysztof Urbanski, indicating he was a person to watch. Polish-trained and...

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  • Blogging 101

    The Post is inching up on 100. Not there yet, but within striking distance. There are still many mysteries about posting to be resolved. One is networking— how to get people to discover you are there in...

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  • “On and on, on and on”

    I have partially tuned out of the ongoing Presidential Primary Contests that just keep rolling along like Old Man River. Unlike the River, they do say something and none of it is new or worth listening to....

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  • Post-Mahleria at Carnegie Hall by Curtis Rittenhouse

    The Post’s plea for relief from Mahleria got an unexpected endorsement yesterday from the stage of Carnegie Hall when Leon Botstein, the Conductor and Music Director of the American Symphony Orchestra, declared  that the Mahler revival had...

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  • A ‘Comment’ on the Nation

    Tonight I returned from a long trip by car that took me back and forth across four states. I decided, since I was alone, to turn on the radio. As I passed from state to state, I...

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