There have been articles recently about the dangers of “internet addiction”–excessive amounts of time spent online leading to depression, anxiety, and even more extreme behavior. I was asked to consider how performance might offer a remedy, and I wrote a brief article that appeared over the weekend on Care2.com. Here’s a link to the article: [...]

Last night I attended a wonderful concert. Two of my all-time favorite works: the Dohnanyi Sextet for piano, violin, viola, cello, clarinet and horn, and the Schubert C Major Quintet. The Dohnanyi is rarely played—at least I’ve never heard it performed except on recordings or when I played it myself, some fifteen years ago, in [...]

Not long ago I attended a superb performance of Beethoven’s C-Sharp minor quartet, one of the great masterpieces of all time. I had been looking forward to the concert, not having heard the work in performance for a long time. The occasion was marred by the lady next to me, who sat through half the [...]