Writings by Topic: Personalities
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| David Hockney (July 9, 1937-June 11, 2026) |
Substack |
June 13, 2026 |
| Maurice Sendak's Macbeth |
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December 6, 2025 |
| From the archive: Meistersinger |
Connoisseur (February 1990) |
July 19, 2025 |
| Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall |
Classical Voice North America |
March 8, 2025 |
| Busy, busy |
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March 30, 2024 |
| Jerome Robbins in winter |
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March 17, 2024 |
| Two extra-special stops on Víkingur Ólafsson's Goldberg Variations tour |
Musical America |
February 29, 2024 |
| Mostly Mozart from Juilliard415 in tandem with Kristian Bezuidenhout |
Classical Voice North America |
February 29, 2024 |
| From Rapa Nui with love |
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November 25, 2023 |
| Kander & Ebb Redux |
Classical Voice North America |
August 14, 2023 |
| In memoriam Helen Kamioner (December 5, 1950-May 6, 2023) |
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May 10, 2023 |
| Where are they now? The further adventures of Gran Wilson, a great Tamino... |
Classical Voice North America |
February 7, 2023 |
| Drypoint to Technicolor |
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December 9, 2022 |
| In Generational Relay, Bright Young Maestro Takes Baton And Flies |
Classical Voice North America |
December 5, 2022 |
| A Manhattan memorial for Juraj Filas |
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November 10, 2022 |
| R.I.P. Juraj Filas (March 5, 1955-December 31, 2021) |
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December 31, 2021 |
| The Amahl file |
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December 23, 2021 |
| A banner year of armchair opera, three banner weeks with Michael Spyres |
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December 20, 2021 |
| When's Boxing Day again? |
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December 4, 2021 |
| The Sondheim File |
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December 3, 2021 |
| Sondheim's World |
Parnassus: Poetry in Review (Autumn 2009) |
December 3, 2021 |
| From the Archives: Everything's Coming Up Sondheim |
Town & Country (May 2002) |
December 2, 2021 |
| A shot in the arm--make that two shots--for Lyric Opera of Chicago |
Air Mail |
September 11, 2021 |
| A woman apart |
Air Mail |
July 31, 2021 |
| Three times 88 keys |
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June 14, 2021 |
| Ready for take-off: Randall Goosby |
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June 11, 2021 |
| The Paris Opera reopens with Marc-André Dalbavie's new 'Satin Slipper' |
Air Mail |
May 15, 2021 |
| Catch of the Day salutes Christa Ludwig |
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May 14, 2021 |
| April's last Catch: Brush up your Shakespeare |
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May 1, 2021 |
| April's last Catch: the series continues |
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May 1, 2021 |
| April's last Catch: a limited miniseries begins |
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May 1, 2021 |
| Celia Ipiotis and the living legacy of "Eye on Dance" |
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April 17, 2021 |
| Music in the real world: Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, arranged by Shostakovich |
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April 15, 2021 |
| Milestones for strings, Black music matters, Muti's Attila... |
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April 2, 2021 |
| Chat with Hilary Hahn about Rautavaara's Serenades now live |
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March 5, 2021 |
| Our expanding universe |
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March 5, 2021 |
| Three more winners |
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February 8, 2021 |
| Island in the stream |
Air Mail |
February 6, 2021 |
| Twist's double feature |
Air Mail |
February 3, 2021 |
| Three times lucky (make that four) |
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February 2, 2021 |
| Marta Eggerth and Jan Kiepura, "In Love and Song" |
Air Mail |
December 5, 2020 |
| Behind the soundtrack of "The Last Dalai Lama?" |
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December 1, 2020 |
| Georgia on his mind |
Air Mail |
October 17, 2020 |
| On Mozart's fingerboard, in a lonely cell, footloose in the world... |
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October 6, 2020 |
| Bach of Ages |
Air Mail |
August 29, 2020 |
| From the Mariinsky, with love |
Air Mail |
August 15, 2020 |
| Bruce Adolphe's Piano Puzzlers |
AIR MAIL/Arts Intel Report |
August 1, 2020 |
| Stars of the Met, live from around the world |
AirMail, Arts Intel Report |
July 17, 2020 |
| In memoriam Jamie James (June 24, 1951-February 9, 2020) |
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July 9, 2020 |
| Opera as it was |
Air Mail |
June 27, 2020 |
| How to stream "Catch of the Day," wherever in the world you are |
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June 26, 2020 |
| P.S. on "Creating 'Der Rosenkavalier'" |
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June 21, 2020 |
| Sondheim at 90 |
Arts Intel Report, AiR MAIL |
May 2, 2020 |
| Russian pianist, Wailuku church are a match made in heaven |
Honolulu Star-Advertiser |
March 8, 2020 |
| ¡Habla conmigo! Creativity in conversation |
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January 28, 2020 |
| Catch as catch can (October 2019-January 2020) |
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January 14, 2020 |
| Tom Sewell's Secret Garden |
Honolulu Star-Advertiser |
December 8, 2019 |
| New Jersey transplant adapts as carving materials change |
Honolulu Star-Advertiser |
November 3, 2019 |
| In memoriam: Jessye Norman |
Connoisseur, January 1987 |
October 1, 2019 |
| A deep dive into swirling waters of Russian Chamber Music |
Honolulu Star-Advertiser |
September 29, 2019 |
| Behind the scenes with Lorenzo Brewer, founder and CEO of nkoda |
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September 26, 2019 |
| Summertime @ Catch of the Day, Part I (June 30) |
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August 10, 2019 |
| Live on tape, seven great maestros, a man who made waterfalls, and me |
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July 3, 2019 |
| Franco Zeffirelli |
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June 15, 2019 |
| Hobnobbing with Sellars and Aimard in Herrenhausen |
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18 Jun 2019 |
| Pre-Posthumous: Edward Gorey on the fringe |
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January 9, 2019 |
| Speak for yourself, Conrad! |
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October 26, 2018 |
| Make way for La Nilsson, make way for Steve J. |
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August 24, 2018 |
| Annie Walton-Teter's long and winding road |
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July 10, 2018 |
| Catching up with Deborah Voigt |
Oper! Das Magazin (Germany), June 2018 |
June 5, 2018 |
| Bull's-eye: Caleb Teicher lights up Crazy for You |
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May 30, 2018 |
| Where Marilyn Horne is at just now |
Oper! Das Magazin (Germany), May 2018 |
May 1, 2018 |
| The Easter Bunny says, "April Fool!" |
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April 2, 2018 |
| Opera Aloha! |
Oper! Das Magazin (Germany), April 2018 |
April 1, 2018 |
| New Names on Catch of the Day (airdate: March 25, 2018) |
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March 27, 2018 |
| Travels with Dima |
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December 4, 2017 |
| From the Archives: Yesterday Siberia, Tomorrow the World |
Connoisseur (June 1990) |
December 4, 2017 |
| Garrison Keillor, erased |
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November 30, 2017 |
| In the wings with Philippe Jordan |
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November 10, 2017 |
| Philippe Jordan revives Pelléas and Così |
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November 8, 2017 |
| Yayoi Kusama contemplates infinity |
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August 29, 2017 |
| From the Archives: Authentic Cook |
Town & Country |
August 12, 2017 |
| From the Archives: What drove Daniel Day-Lewis? |
Connoisseur, December 1989 |
July 12, 2017 |
| And he called for his divas three |
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June 9, 2017 |
| From the archives: Jorma Hynninen, Voice of a Nation |
Connoisseur (June 1985) |
April 4, 2017 |
| Hooked! |
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December 1, 2016 |
| Déjà vu all over again |
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November 21, 2016 |
| In the wings with Michael Fabiano, tenor |
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July 28, 2016 |
| David Gockley Calls It a Day |
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July 28, 2016 |
| In memoriam Nikolaus Harnoncourt (December 6, 1929-March 5, 2016) |
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March 7, 2016 |
| To Trevor Noah at age 32 |
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February 20, 2016 |
| Among friends: a new album from Saimir Pirgu |
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February 5, 2016 |
| The Socratic method |
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January 9, 2016 |
| In memoriam: Yveta Synek Graff |
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November 25, 2015 |
| Jon Vickers, Canadian icon (October 19, 1926-July 10, 2015) |
The New York Times |
July 12, 2015 |
| And did you know that he was married at St. Patrick's? |
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April 3, 2015 |
| From the Archives: Roll-Player |
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January 6, 2015 |
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Blog Posts |
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| Orliński twice over |
Blog |
March 29, 2016 |
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Book Reviews |
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I Knew a Man Who Knew Brahms: A Memoir
by Nancy Shear |
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June 28, 2025 |
Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
by Jeremy Eichler |
The New Criterion (April 2024) |
September 4, 2024 |
I Didn't See It Coming: Scenes of Love, Loss, and Lewy Body Dementia
by Mary Lou Falcone |
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October 7, 2023 |
Maestros and Their Music: The Art and Alchemy of Conducting
by John Mauceri |
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June 28, 2018 |
Senior Moments: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
by Willard Spiegelman |
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August 29, 2016 |
The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic
by Jamie James |
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August 10, 2016 |
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