WQXR Editorial
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Perfect Flaws and Engineered Reality: On the Live Versus Studio Recording Question
Considering the live versus studio debate might change how you listen to your favorite artists and albums. Sep 22, 2020
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Choices and Dead-Ends: A Music Writer’s Process
David Patrick Stearns follows up his Black conductors story with some insight into the research process. Sep 21, 2020
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Latest / Greatest September 2020
From tender cello music by Dvořák to booming Brahms Symphonies, here are our favorite recordings released last month. Sep 21, 2020
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Commanding Conservatories in the Time of COVID-19: How 9 Music Schools Are Adapting As They Reopen This Fall
A look into how nine music schools are adapting to the new normal of re-opening. Sep 18, 2020
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Has Music Become a Disposable Commodity?
Our relationship to recorded sound has changed a lot. So has the way we listeners interact with the artists we're most devoted to. Sep 15, 2020
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Beyond High Concept, Beyond Algorithms: Classical Recording Artists Go “Off the Leash”
After decades of respectful, even beatific enshrinement, classical repertoire is being challenged, tested, and “tough loved” by its fondest champions. Sep 11, 2020
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Bach’s Goldberg Variations — and All of its Loopholes — Keep it Indestructible
The Goldberg Variations is a masterpiece without consensus — in terms of what it is, who should play it and how it should be heard. Sep 10, 2020
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Get on the Bandwagon: the New York Phil Is Bringing the Concert Experience Outdoors
The orchestra will see you now. Sep 3, 2020
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America’s Lost Generation of Black Conductors
The 1970s are hardly ancient history, but the decade seems like a distant world that had African American symphony and opera conductors in a few highly visible positions. Sep 1, 2020
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First Listen: Invictus
Anthony Barfield’s commission which celebrates the resilience of New York, features musicians from ensembles across Lincoln Center’s campus performing together for the first time, ever. Aug 31, 2020
