January 2007

JERUSALEM, January 29 - The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, celebrating its 70th anniversary, is one of the centerpieces of Israeli cultural life, a distinguished institution that resonates powerfully with the Jewish diaspora whose sympathy…

It seems strange, so many decades after the post-war avant-garde first met in Darmstadt, Germany, how often the words shameless and tonal are still linked. Given that composers now enthusiastically write in wildly diverse idioms, calling a…