MUSIC
April 2016
The life force has vanished from the capital’s classical music scene in recent years. Who is to blame?
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March 2016
Pierre Boulez was convinced the world needed to change — and that he was the man to change it
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January/February 2016
After fifty years as a music critic, I finally made it to La Scala. What was I missing? Everything
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December 2015
The passion and dedication at OrchKids, a Baltimore version of El Sistema, cannot fix a broken city
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Written each month by the concert and operatic tenor Ian Bostridge
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