Operatic gold dust

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/02/09/bmshore09.xml&sSheet=/arts/2006/02/10/ixartright.html

Child’s Opera According to Sendak: Send In the Bullies and Milk

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/arts/music/10send.html

BYRD: The Great Service

The religious turmoil of sixteenth-century England was characterized not only by factionalism and polarity, but also famously by the charting of a via media, a middle path, through opposing views.

LSO Live’s Falstaff Wins Grammy

http://www.lso.co.uk/recordings/lsolive/detail.asp?Detail=LSO0055

Philadelphia Orchestra/Rattle, Carnegie Hall, NY

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/501c727c-9911-11da-aa99-0000779e2340.html

New York Philharmonic to Make Concerts Available for Digital Downloading

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/09/arts/music/09reco.html

In Search of Mozart

http://www.smh.com.au/news/film-reviews/celebration-of-mozart-stays-in-tune-with-the-facts/2006/02/08/1139379567372.html

Mozart’s added horse-power

http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/mozarts-added-horsepower/2006/02/06/1139074161265.html

The truth about Shostakovich in his centenary year

Dmitry Shostakovich survived Stalin’s rule by the skin of his teeth. But is his music really the Soviet propaganda that many people claim?

Faustus, The Last Night, Staatsoper, Berlin

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/51dac150-9848-11da-816b-0000779e2340.html