by Robin Wirthlin | Dec 25, 2010 | Concert Reviews
Having now examined Joshua Kosman’s review of classical music in 2010 for the San Francisco Chronicle, I cannot resist the urge to perform this exercise myself. However, I want to begin by making a case for playing this game by different rules. Regular readers of my...
by Robin Wirthlin | Apr 27, 2010 | Concert Reviews
One of my music teachers told me a beautiful joke about Igor Stravinsky and Franz Schubert. The story was that Stravinsky told friends that he would always fall asleep during a performance of Schubert’s music; but then he would awaken and find that he was in...