- Anne Midgette
- Reporter
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.
- 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
- Concerto on the fly: Can classical musicians learn to improvise?
- Links: Norman Scribner’s last goodbye; Vivaldi on the mandolin
- Choral Arts Society founder says farewell
- Washington National Opera artistic director to leave
- NSO tour: First concert done
- WNO news: Scheppelmann to leave, announces plans for new American Opera Initiative on the way out
- A long finish for a choral director, a new look for Washington’s choruses
- Links: From Salerno-Sonnenberg to Simpson, a weekend review roundup
- What the National Symphony Orchestra gets out of its tour of South America
- Links: a season ends, a festival opens
- NSO announces 2013 European tour
- NSO announces European tour in 2013
- Summer Festivals in and around Washington
- Highlights from summer’s classical music calendar
- Eschenbach, Saks, et alia: reviews and addenda
- Castleton Festival struggles for an identity and future beyond Lorin Maazel
- Elsewhere: Five major American festivals you should know
- Splendor in the grass: Around D.C., plenty of opportunities for summer classical music
- Christoph Eschenbach and National Symphony Orchestra are having fun
- Gidon Saks’s brilliant and idiosyncratic singing performance
- Neale Perl to step down as WPAS head
- Perl to leave WPAS
- Links: a May review roundup
- Crowdsourcing Met HD, Part I
- Peter and the press
- Wachner and Washington Chorus deftly navigate ‘Essential Wagner’
- RIP Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Herbert Breslin
- Pianist Jeremy Denk, a classicist for the 21st century, at Sixth and I Synagogue
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, master singer of German art songs, dies at 86
- Herbert Breslin, Pavarotti’s brash and profane manager, dies at 87
- Music review: Andreas Delfs, Nelson Freire and the National Symphony Orchestra
- RIP Herbert Breslin
- Opera review: ‘Samson et Dalila,’ by the Washington Concert Opera
- Links: WNO’s “Werther,” the Philadelphia Orchestra, and other highlights.
- Music and Art: a CEO’s Debussy, a dissident’s “Zodiac”
- You be the critic: UMD “Faun” on video
- Links: the week in review
- Opera review: ‘Werther’ at the Washington National Opera
- Debussy works premiere more than a century later
- Ai Weiwei, dissident Chinese artist, and fragments of a cultural past
- Ai Weiwei, dissident Chinese artist, and fragments of a cultural past
- U-Md. Symphony Orchestra gets out of its chairs, giving music a visual life
- Links: Bashmet disappoints, Steinbacher shines, and other recent reviews
- Links: Nabucco and more
- Opera review: ‘Nabucco’ at the Washington National Opera
- Your dream WPAS season here.
- WPAS announces 2012-13 season
- Norman Scribner, hail and farewell
- The weekend in review: Concerto Köln, Verge Ensemble, A Far Cry, and Fred Lerdahl
- Concert review: Norman Scribner leads Choral Arts Society in swan song performance of Brahms’s ‘Requiem’
- Nabucco comes to WNO
- The Art of Argento
- Anne Midgette reviews ‘Postcard from Morocco’ and ‘Miss Havisham’s Fire’
- Opera: ‘Nabucco’ at Washington National Opera
- Dominick Argento: A career filled with high notes
- Puts wins Pulitzer
- Eggerth on the air
- Links: Josh Bell as music director; two local opera companies make good(ish); and other weekend highlights.
- Anne Midgette reviews ‘Positions 1956’ and ‘Barbiere di Siviglia’
- Link: Marta Eggerth at 100
- Links: the week in reviews
- Marta Eggerth, still singing at 100
- Point/Counterpoint: The death of the matinee
- You be the critic: Lembit Beecher’s new trio
- Links: Hamelin, “Pierrot,” and the KenCen Players.
- Music review: Eighth Blackbird at Kennedy Center
- Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin played an intimate and engaging concert
- Music: NSO announces Americas Tour
- NSO to tour “Americas” in June
- Just Awards: young opera singers feted
- Weekend reviews: from Bach to Midori
- Bach Sinfonia re-creates 1723 auditions for post of Liepzig’s cantor
- Choral Arts announces Scribner successor
- Scott Tucker to succeed Norman Scribner at Choral Arts Society
- Links: Midori in Alexandria; Bach Consort
- Johansen Competition: young at art
- Links: iPod concert and other weekend highlights
- Review: Concert lacks spontaneity of ‘Shuffle.Play. Listen’
- International young talent at local competition
- Link: North Korean orchestra may tour US.
- Group working to bring North Korean orchestra to U.S.
- “Self-help” opera workshopped
- Links: Perahia, L’Arpeggiata, and Ute Lemper
- Murray Perahia at Strathmore
- Links: Reviews of Repin, Chen, and other weekend highlights
- Review: Vadim Repin at Strathmore
- The weekend ahead, music theater edition
- “Best arts blogger:” who need apply?
- NSO’s “Fidelio”: the morning after
- A festive ‘Fidelio’ from National Symphony Orchestra
- News and notes
- Voigt, voided
- Links: Weekend roundup
- Opera on eBay
- Links: New head of Vocal Arts DC is favorite local son
- Peter Russell becomes artistic director at Vocal Arts DC
- Weekend pick: free chamber music marathon at KenCen
- Dueling art songs: competition in Philly
- Links: Bluebeard’s Castle; Becket and Koston
- Christoph Eschenbach, Matthias Goerne, Michelle DeYoung take on Bartok
- More season announcements: the National Philharmonic
- Link: Goerne and Eschenbach’s honest “Winterreise”
- Kennedy Center 2012-13
- L’affair Golijov
- Anne Midgette: From Matthias Goerne, phenomenal control in Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’
- Links: Gheorghiu disappoints, Bronfman impresses, and other classical reviews
- Gheorghiu, Washington National Opera put on a less-than-coordinated performance
- The BSO celebrates women - and its 2012-13 season
- I dare you not to cry: on classical music and critical thinking
- Links: Maazel and the Vienna Phil are oddly uneven; weekly roundup.
- Baltimore Symphony hosts Women of the World festival
- Lorin Maazel and Vienna Philharmonic offer some surprises
- Outraged over composer’s ‘stealing’ or just feeling duped?
- Portrait of the artist as music critic
- Cosi fa Miller
- Critic’s review of Washington National Opera’s ‘Cosi fan tutte’
- From pastiche to appropriation: Golijov and “Siderus”
- Links: Julia Fischer; Kronos Quartet
- Violinist Julia Fischer shows both focus and range in Sixth and I Synagogue recital
- Link: The Miller’s Tale
- Jonathan Miller brings an opera, shopworn brilliance to Washington
- Links: Blomstedt delights at NSO; Emerson Quartet; more
- Conductor Herbert Blomstedt lets the music speak for itself
- Emerson Quartet announces sea change
- Links: Two Orpheuses heard in DC region
- Virginia Opera presents Philip Glass’s ‘Orphee’ at George Mason University
- Link: HD broadcasts lure performing arts institutions, but only a few will benefit long-term
- HD, 3-D screenings can revitalize performing arts
- New ideas in the news: Pittsburgh seeks soloist via Youtube, Philly continues embrace of new opera.
- Old-fashioned interruption at the NSO
- Links: Graham cancels recital, but classical weekend remains active.
- Glass in Virginia: two opera companies offer audiences more to love
- For Virginia opera lovers, it’s a whole new scene
- Link: Eschenbach and NSO offer a lot of heart, and some crackling Beethoven
- Christoph Eschenbach leads National Symphony Orchestra in emotional program
- Links: Dinnerstein, Imani Winds, Paolo Pandolfo - and Castiglione
- Art Review: ‘The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione’
- Spring preview — Classical: Concert highlights for 2012
- Clarinetist Joerg Widmann shows off his composing skills with National Symphony
- Link: Bell, and Ethel
- Link: Music, or muzak, in public: crime deterrent, elitist territory-marking, or just plain annoying?
- Links: this was the week that was on Washington’s classical scene
- Teaching tomorrow’s critics?
- Ethel string quartet’s powerful music was overwhelming
- Blasting Mozart to drive criminals away
- Speaking of American opera: another new program in Fort Worth
- What’s American music, again?
- NY church suspends ambitious music program of DC choral director
- Link: NSO plays Mackey
- Conductor Hannu Lintu, violinist Leila Josefowicz shine in NSO show
- Carnegie Hall offers yet another “national” intiative with new youth orchestra
- On the American-ness of “American Opera”
- WNO announces full ‘Ring’ production in 2016, new commissioning project
- WNO offers new initiatives for the new year
- Pianist Daniil Trifonov’s playing is freakishly brilliant
- Virginia Opera produces a wonderful ‘Aida’
- Music review: Yumi Kurosawa and the Lark Quartet at the Freer and Sackler Galleries
- Hausmann recital shows potential
- Links: reviews of Gergiev, the Alexandria Symphony, and other weekend fare
- Pianist Daniil Trifonov’s playing is freakishly brilliant
- Music review: Friday Morning Music Club 125th season debut concert
- Of conductors, youth, and performance
- Link: Tod Machover and the music museum of the future
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