- Anne Midgette
- Critic
Anne Midgette came to the Washington Post in 2008, when she consolidated her various cultural interests under the single title of chief classical music critic. She blogs at The Classical Beat, which she thinks you really should be reading.
Dawn Upshaw and Crash Ensemble at the Kennedy Center
Program includes Dennehy song cycle based on the poetry of William Butler Yeats.
NSO’s strengths, weaknesses, identity issues on display at Spring for Music
The penultimate edition of Carnegie Hall’s weeklong series left a warm impression, though a wistful one.
Ballets Russes drove audiences from modern music? Just the opposite.
The company created something brand-new and made it wildly popular throughout European society.
American orchestras retooling for 21st century with less money, bigger jobs
The 21st-century American orchestra must redefine its role. For musicians, this means doing more, getting less.
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra makes itself at home at Carnegie festival
- ‘Show Boat’ at the Washington National Opera is worth the ride
- Emerson Quartet prepares for changing of the guard
- Christoph Eschenbach, National Symphony Orchestra mix up the program
- At Kennedy Center, Philadelphia Orchestra’s new leader turns up the volume
- Matthew Grills, a Met audition winner, shows earnest potential in Terrace recital
- Meredith Monk goes green, recycles in new work ‘On Behalf of Nature’
- Jaap van Zweden leads National Symphony Orchestra in up and down program
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