Night After Night

M&Ms.

American Modern Ensemble at Galapagos Art Space
The New York Times, November 6, 2009

Close, but no cigar.

The New York Philharmonic with Emanuel Ax at Avery Fisher Hall
The New York Times, November 2, 2009

Sentimental journey.

Lang Lang and Friends at Carnegie Hall
The New York Times, October 29, 2009

Love, exciting and new.

Tan Dun, Cho-Liang Lin and the Juilliard Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall
The New York Times, October 28, 2009

Ancient style.

Stile Antico at Corpus Christi Church
The New York Times, October 27, 2009

Keep it in the family.

Wu Man, the Zhang Family Band and the Li Family Daoist Band at Zankel Hall
The New York Times, October 27, 2009

Bedeviled.

La Damnation de Faust at the Metropolitan Opera
The New York Times, October 27, 2009

Wee three kings.

Bleecker Street Opera Company: L'Amore dei Tre Re at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street
The New York Times, October 20, 2009

Home is where the art is.

"An Ensemble With Many Homes Finds Another"
The New York Times, October 18, 2009

An article about the Pacifica Quartet, a widely admired, award-winning string quartet that has just taken over a plum residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The Pacifica Quartet takes over for the Guarneri String Quartet, which held the position for an amazing 43 seasons prior to playing its New York farewell concert in May. (My Times review of that event is here.)

My thanks to Sibbi Bernhardsson and Masumi Per Rostad of the Pacifica Quartet for taking the time out of a busy schedule to sit down for a long, generous interview, of which this article barely scratched the surface. Thanks, too, to Hilde Limondjian, booker of the Met Museum's concert series -- and the one whose enthusiastic initial report brought the Guarneris into the museum in the first place -- as well as to Elliott Carter: distinguished composer, great artist and my first interview subject to include "they gave a concert of my music back when I was 100" in a sentence.

Finally, I'd like to express my gratitude to Karl Kramer, director of the School of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for taking the time to grant an interview. While I ultimately did not work that conversation into the final article, what Dr. Kramer had to say was of tremendous value in providing a clear picture of just how versatile and busy the Pacifica Quartet players are.

Music in revue.

Christine Brewer and Craig Rutenberg at Zankel Hall
The New York Times, October 16, 2009