Leonard Bernstein’s ghost has hung discreetly around the grounds of Tanglewood for the past 28 years, ever since the maestro died in the fall of 1990.This…

My sophomore year at college ended on Thursday, June 1, 1967. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t remember the date, but it’s now a part of history: it was the day The…

Over the years, I’ve scrambled to think of ways to write about Christmas music.Overrated, Underrated, Unfairly Neglected, Ten Best, 12 Worst, Pop,…

Gary Miller wasn’t primarily a musician; he was a clergyman.As many thousands of you around here know, Gary was the senior minister at Asylum Hill…

Bob Dylan's own reaction to winning the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature isn't known yet. In his first public appearance following the news, a couple of…

The new arts season is upon us, and two of the area’s premier music institutions get started this week.The Hartford Symphony Orchestra opens the new year…

Thanks to the restless and inquiring mind of Colin McEnroe, many of us have been recently thinking about the following questions: Is the rock era over?…

The death of Hugh O’Brian last week has put me in a nostalgic mood for the great TV Westerns of yesteryear.O’Brian, as readers of a certain age will…

Arts administrators don’t often get the chance to communally reflect on their precarious profession, but on Saturday, September 17, the University of…

These days, just about everybody in the classical music world has an idea about how to enliven the concert experience.Stephen Hough, the brilliant…