• A Novelty and a Debut in New York by Curtis Rittenhouse

    Manfred Honeck, the music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony made a belated debut with the New York Philharmonic over the week-end. Honeck who has been in Pittsburgh since 2008 has a contract running there through 2020. Someone...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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  • Giving Film Music the Respect It Deserves by Curtis Rittenhouse

    My recent encounter with Schmidt’s Notre Dame and an upcoming concert performance of Weber’s Der Freischutz got me thinking about neglected Austro-German music of the Romantic and Post-Romantic eras. One name that stands out there is Erich...

    • Posted 12 years ago
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