The New Yorker: Goings On About Town – Lara Downes
The pianist Lara Downes honors Clara Schumann’s legacy with a concert of works by women that falls exactly on the legendary virtuoso and composer’s two-hundredth birthday.
The New Yorker: The Return of Mid-Century American Symphonies
The conductor Gerard Schwarz’s upcoming concert with the Juilliard Orchestra, at Alice Tully Hall on Thursday, highlights an essential but overlooked period of American composition: the great mid-twentieth-century symphonies.