When a Man Loves a Cello
In January, 2022, the British cellist Steven Isserlis was walking to a professional engagement when catastrophe struck. The skies opened. Isserlis was holding the three-hundred-year-old…
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classical music
When the Man Tried to Sell Minimalism to the Counterculture
“The Man can’t bust our music,” an advertisement in the underground newspaper Berkeley Barb proclaimed, in November, 1968. The accompanying image showed seven presumed radicals huddled in…
Can Dave Hurwitz Save Classical Recording?
Hurwitz, however, is undaunted by such matters. For one thing, he is not troubled by the notion that children will be lost to classical forever if they are not turned on to it early. “To…