The Boston Marathon may have been two weeks ago, but Northwestern’s Music Marathon is just around the corner. It benefits the socialist-sounding-but-not-really People’s Music School, and is organized by the smart Billy. Donate, attend, have fun, benefit classical music for young people. Win-win-win-win.
Alan Rich was a music critic, and the last American critic to have heard Artur Schnabel, and who attended the premiere of Bela Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1945, when he was a student at Harvard. The passing of that musical knowledge marks something in our nation’s musical life. There [...]