On almost any given Sunday, musical orthodoxy and a sometimes radical  creationism reconcile, if not always harmoniously, inside the space of the Church of Beethoven.  Both a physical place and a trope of musical devotion, the  church, …

There is undoubtedly a serious air of music-making that happens after sundown during the justly celebrated Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival — something about the sound, as night comes on, of strings being tuned before a …

During Warner Herzog’s odyssey into glittering Chauvet Cave, whose walls are graced with startlingly fresh images of woolly rhinos, lions, horses, mammoths, painted by torchlight some 32,000 years ago, the camera rises operatically out of skeletal …

Years ago, I grabbed a ticket to my first classical Indian music concert and somewhere halfway through entered into transport. Legendary maestro of the lute-like Sarod, Ali Akbar Khan, sat cross-legged in loose white silk, fingerboard …

“Prodigy” is that small apotheosis reserved for the young. Mozart, Mendelssohn, Michael Jackson they have been clamored after, adored,  given (a few) eminent celebrity. Yet, when “Violin Prodigy” hailed as the title of Benjamin Beilmans recent …

Composer Peter Garland had traveled so many years in Guatemala, Bali, Java, Australia, the Philippines, and for a significant time in Mexico, “hanging out,” as he said, ” in places where most people dont even have …

Hearing that renowned soloist Murray Perahia had cancelled his October 25th recital in Santa Fe, I expected to summarize a performance by his replacement, Christopher Taylor, that the only thing missing from Taylors performance was Murray …