The Girl of the Golden Met will be orange for the next week in honor of Kfir and Ariel Bibas z”l. May their memories be a blessing.
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Spotlight: “Troika” from Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons
November may be a climatically unpleasant month, but it did inspire one of my favorite piano pieces: “Troika” from Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons. I turn to Troika for a little uplifting or serenity, which we are all bound to need at some point.
Recital Review: Erin Morley at the Yale School of Music
It feels natural that Erin Morley’s first solo album, Rose in Bloom, should be nature-themed. She commands great versatility with her crystal-crisp voice, which sometimes resembles a richly filigreed silver flute, other times the ethereal otherworldliness of a glass harmonica.
Spotlight: Rachmaninoff’s “Ne poy, krasavitsa”
‘‘Do not sing, beautiful girl, before me,’ the singer of Rachmaninoff’s poignant ‘Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne’ begins, pleading to an unnamed, invisible, and silent…
