- 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.
- Review: Zuill Bailey at Phillips Collection
- Dawn Upshaw and Crash Ensemble at the Kennedy Center
- NSO’s strengths, weaknesses, identity issues on display at Spring for Music
- Ballets Russes drove audiences away from modern music? Just the opposite.
- American orchestras: A time of crisis or rebirth?
- 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
- Pianist Evgeny Kissin offers Viennese classicism at Kennedy Center recital
- Weekend roundup: so many premieres, so little time.
- At Washington National Cathedral, music fit for a queen
- Lack of focus in Gabriel Kahane’s muddled ‘48 States’ undermines fine performances
- Review: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra ‘Ring’
- Of revivals and rebirths: Tavener in DC, Aspern Papers in Dallas
- Dallas Opera rescues a work from undeserved obscurity
- For Sir John Tavener, Diamond Jubilee composition is a musical rebirth
- Thielemann, Dresden offer a mercurial approach to Brahms at Strathmore
- Of Pollini and Pulitzers.
- Sir Colin Davis, 1927-2013.
- Colin Davis, celebrated British conductor, dies at 85
- Review: Carter Brey in Rockville
- WPAS, Vocal Arts DC announce 2013-14
- Weekend reviews: Carpenter, Rousset, and more
- WPAS announces leaner, fresher 2013-14 season
- WCO offers stunning soprano showdown. You should have been there.
- April concerts: Wolff, Kolkay, and a great Great Noise.
- Gabriel Kahane makes classical music jaunty, and, happily, no one seems to mind
- Domingo-Cafritz apprentice program starts young opera stars on bumpy path
- Conductor Hugh Wolff and NSO turn unfamiliar work into comfortable sound
- News for April 1: Bertinelli signs exclusive CD contract
- Gabriel Kahane, a genre bender musician
- National Symphony Orchestra’s all-German program glides from pretty to powerful
- Difficulties of material, venue don't stop Hvorostovsky
- Roomful of Teeth, a cappella
- Strike three: SFS cancels DC
- Learning how to play technology
- Anne-Sophie Mutter has a semi-great night
- WNO’s ‘Norma’: Of men, women and sopranos
- Washington National Opera’s ‘Norma’ takes all that symbolism rather literally
- Lambert Orkis, the accomplished accompanist
- National Symphony offers a quirky, diverse and sometimes soaring program
- Anne Sofie von Otter, accompanist Bengt Forsberg beguile with their easy style
- Kennedy Center focuses on American vocalism in 2013-14
- WNO shows promise of things to come in ‘Manon Lescaut’
- Arts in schools: an addendum
- NSO program of Henze and Brahms is a feast for the ears from the Fatherland
- WP Magazine, the Education Issue: After years of crouching, arts ed is raising its hand again
- Nordic Cool at Kennedy Center opens with potluck
- Trio of Americans make BSO’s all-Wagner program shine
- An orchestra’s practiced perfection
- Eyewitness: NSO reigns in Germany
- Links: Angela Hewitt reviewed, plus a “telematic opera”
- Music review: ‘Auksalaq,’ the so-called telematic opera with a smartphone app
- The other East Coast opera: Philly offers “Silent Night”
- Links: World’s greatest conductor?
- World’s best: Mariss Jansons bringing Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to Kennedy Center
- Wolf Trap goes Italian for 2013
- Verdehr Trio offers greatest hits for its 40th anniversary and D.C. farewell
- Links: from Afghans to the Cultural Revolution
- Weekend reviews: from CUA to Isserlis
- WPAS names new head: my personal take
- Stanford Live director to lead WPAS
- Violinist Vilde Frang shows she can do everything
- ‘Lalla Roukh’ at the Kennedy Center: If it ain’t baroque, don’t fix it
- The classical voices of spring
- Link: NSO offers dress rehearsal for European tour
- National Symphony Orchestra’s latest concert seems like a dress rehearsal
- Your call: review assignments from readers
- Reviews: finding the balance — or crowdsourcing it
- Inauguration, the playlist
- Music and the Presidency, inaugural edition
- Links: Strong pianists make for great weekend
- At Kennedy Center, Daniil Trifonov proves himself an heir to Liszt
- The return of the links
- Conductor notes: Muti ails, Orozco-Estrada prevails
- Under Christoph Eschenbach’s baton, Tzimon Barto plays Bartok with NSO
- Pianist’s focus on Chopin paying off in ways small and large
- Duchess of Cambridge’s official portrait: ‘stunningly unflattering’
- Inaugural music: It’s nice, but it’s not a concert
- Why Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’ continues to inspire
- ‘Hänsel’ is a grown-up twist on a childhood favorite
- ‘Paganini Project’: An awkward marriage, better seen than heard
- Review: Phillips Collection concert showcases Matthias Pintscher
- Notes on film: Classical music on the big screen
- Tenor Vinson Cole’s songs were pleasant but unspectacular at Kennedy Center
- Charles Rosen, pianist, author and polymath, dies at 85
- Classical music’s top ten highs and lows of 2012
- Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra: All grown up on the Kennedy Center stage
- Yo-Yo Ma and the Bach cello suites: Familiar, but certainly not routine
- Music review: So Percussion, ACME and yMusic showcase new sounds
- Juraj Valcuha leads NSO in pieces new to orchestra
- Anonymous 4 takes on David Lang’s ‘Love Fail’ at Kennedy Center
- Kennedy Center debuts 5,000-pipe organ
- ‘Love Fail’: A crossover star’s star-crossed lovers
- Classical music review: The Takacs Quartet
- Castleton announces 2013 season
- Weekend roundup: Lang Lang and more
- Braun and Meade: a study in contrasting recitals
- Classical music makes new records
- Opera review: Angela Meade at the Kennedy Center
- Lang Lang, Christoph Eschenbach, NSO offer vivid classical music
- Coming to appreciate Lang Lang
- Naxos’s 25 years of reinventing itself
- Review digest: of Lang Lang, Midori, Josh Bell, and more
- RIP Carter and Henze: two voices of the 20th century
- Lang Lang’s unique style, good and bad, offers originality
- Elliott Carter dies; Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer was 103
- Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis is an entertaining challenge for NSO and Eschenbach
- Knitting: At the convergence of art and craft and creativity
- Andras Schiff launches the Bach Project
- Met’s ‘Tempest’: When the wind stops, what’s left?
- Review: Ades’s “Tempest” comes to Met stage.
- Coming to the U.S.: ‘The Year of Italian Culture 2013’
- Art: Two Lichtenstein retrospectives
- Music in Washington: this was the week that was
- Art review: ‘Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective’ at the National Gallery
- Link: NSO disappoints in promising program
- National Symphony’s Eschenbach gives Bruckner a loving, original reading
- The return of the native: Levine back at Met?
- Wolf Trap snares Hollywood Bowl head as next CEO
- Sretensky Monastery Choir at the Library of Congress
- NSO starts its season with two contrasting performances
- Ai Weiwei: Separating the dissident from the artist
- NSO opens with pretty sounds, fancy dresses, striking decor
- Links: BSO’s fine Kaddish, and more
- Alsop and Baltimore Symphony beautify Bernstein’s ‘Kaddish’
- WETA’s John Chester to retire at end of the year
- Links: on fandom and undying love
- Reviews: Gunn in concert -- and to Philadelphia
- Books: Two diametrically opposed views of an introduction to opera
- Opera: ‘L’Elisir d’Amore’ at the Metropolitan
- Met season opener: ‘L’Elisir,’ reviewed
- Of opera and Americana
- Fairfax gambles and wins with American evening
- Well-cast roles and creative ideas boost WNO’s ‘Don Giovanni’
- Dan Steinhilber’s ‘Marlin Underground’ gives basement full of junk a soundtrack
- La Sonnambula: bel canto weekend
- WCO’s ‘La Sonnambula’ is live and wide awake
- Press releases we never finished reading
- Sondra shines, and more
- Radvanovsky shines in Washington National Opera’s ‘Anna Bolena’
- Sondra Radvanovsky prepares for Washington National Opera’s ‘Anna Bolena’
- Zambello and WNO: the match is made
- Cage festival: the end
- NSO in the neighborhood, again
- Music review: Anne Midgette on the John Cage Centennial Festival
- Cage festival: more reviews
- Music: ‘Freeman Etudes’ at the Phillips
- Washington 2012 classical music season features premieres and other firsts
- Cage festival: first concert
- Music: John Cage Centennial Festival
- Cage @ 100
- John Cage Centennial Festival: Will it silence critics in Washington?
- Opera: great personalties, bad actors
- Of art and nudity: link
- Picasso’s nude: When art confounds, some take offense
- Readers’ classical rediscoveries
- Taking opera’s pulse
- Readers’ rediscoveries
- A tale of two organs
- Kennedy Center’s new organ arrives to much fanfare
- Rediscoveries, indeed
- Little-known composers get their due in the studio if not the concert hall
- At U-Md., Kapell competition shows the joys and limits of piano rivalry
- Richard Egarr demonstrates pianoforte’s elegance with music and musings at Clarice Smith Center
- A new summertime treat: concert series at Evermay
- At Castleton, ‘A Little Night Music’ amplifies disappointments
- WQXR: does the Web make criticism meaner?
- Kapell Competition: Founder returns to jury
- Kapell Competition begins: Fleisher on Kapell
- Evelyn Lear: a last picture
- Kapell festival isn’t just a piano competition
- Baldwin gives Capital One bucks to New York Philharmonic
- Links: Storm edition (but the shows went on)
- RIP Evelyn Lear
- At ‘Don Giovanni’ and other performances, storm’s power outages are a showstopper
- Review: Hesperus accompanies ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’
- Music: National Orchestral Institute at Strathmore
- Music and art: questions of intrusion
- NSO tour: homeward bound
- These knitters wouldn’t unravel under the glare of U.S. Olympic Committee
- Oman, o man: Scheppelmann to Muscat
- Kennedy Center companies to perform at Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman
- Paola Prestini’s ‘Oceanic Verses’: Opera’s music is mostly compelling
- NSO tour: Christoph Eschenbach
- NSO and Eschenbach enjoying belated honeymoon
- NSO tour: two symphonies in Rosario
- Improv, the morning after
- NSO tour: review roundup
- Music: Hahn and Hauschka at Birchmere
- Weekend links
- Wayward Sisters have landed awards, but should keep searching for an identity
- Improvisation, classical style
- NSO tour: From Mexico to Trinidad & Tobago
- From Philip Glass, an American overture to mark the War of 1812
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