Music & the Arts
January 12, 2026 • 8:36 am 4
A fine start to the new year at Seattle Symphony:
Romanticism has proved more adaptable than its obituaries suggested. Across the 20th century, composers continued to return to music grounded in subjective expression, even when critical fashion leaned elsewhere….
Filed under: Leonard Bernstein, Rachmaninoff, review, Romanticism, Seattle Symphony
September 28, 2020 • 9:51 am Comments Off on Rethinking Romanticism: Early Music’s Latest Adventures in Time Travel
The fall edition of Early Music America’s magazine carries my new article on encounters between historically informed performance and Romanticism:
Revolutions have a way of coming full circle. As the HIP movement began spreading more than half a century ago, its bracing challenge to conventional interpretations echoed the rebellious spirit of the 1960s…
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Kent Nagano on his collaboration with Concerto Köln to prepare for a HIP Ring
Filed under: early music, Early Music America, Romanticism, Schumann, Wagner
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