Archive for April 20th, 2026
Steven Isserlis closes Shriver’s 60th subscription season
British cellist Steven Isserlis and his long-time collaborator Connie Shih perform a program of Beethoven, Schumann, Kabalevsky, and Vítězslava Kaprálová to close out the subscription season of Shriver Hall Concert Series‘ 60th anniversary. I spoke with him by phone from New York.
Ballet Theatre of Maryland revives rare Romantic treasure
When is a revival also a premiere? When the piece in question is a landmark classic of the Romantic ballet repertoire that has rarely been seen on European or American stages in more than a century. Such is the case with Ballet Theatre of Maryland’s current production of La Esmeralda, an action-packed but also sweetly […]
Beloved novel takes center stage
Louis Sachar’s stage adaptation of his own crowd-pleasing, critically celebrated young adult novel Holes digs in at Baltimore Center Stage through May 10th, in a production directed by Baltimore-area director Johanna Gruenhut and featuring several locally based cast members. Holes follows a diverse band of misfit youngsters thrown together willy-nilly under the punishing desert sun and […]
Monday 4/20/26 New York Philharmonic
11:00 PM MENDELSSOHN Elijah Twyla Robinson, soprano Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano Allan Clayton, tenor Gerald Finley, bass-baritone Jennifer Johnson, mezzo-soprano Benjamin P. Wenzelberg, boy soprano New York Choral Artists Joseph Flummerfelt, chorus director Alan Gilbert, conductor
Playlist: Apr/20/26
10:21 PM Frederic Chopin — Piano Concerto No. 2 Key: F minor Opus: 21Conductor: Krystian ZimermanEnsemble: Polish Festival OrchestraKrystian Zimerman, pianoDG/Archiv, 459684 9:56 PM H.Owen Reed — La Fiesta Mexicana Conductor: Howard DunnReference, 38 9:25 PM Johannes Brahms — String Quintet No. 1 Key: F major Opus: 88Ensemble: Ludwig QuartetBruno Pasquier, violaNaxos, 8553635 8:47 PM […]
