Howard Pollack News Today

Sadly, this book review is also an obituary and a memoir. In early 2023, The University of Chicago Press published a collection of Michael Denneny’s writings, On Christopher Street: Life, Sex, and Death After Stonewall.

The Dubuque Symphony Orchestra is taking advantage of a unique opportunity during its upcoming Classics 2 concerts.

Read this week's best bets for a lot of live music, a couple of festivals, and a month-long film retrospective.

Howard Pollack has written a comprehensive biography rich with information about composer Samuel Barber’s private and professional life, his music, and his place in the canon.

Howard Pollack has written a comprehensive biography rich with information about composer Samuel Barber’s private and professional life, his music, and his place in the canon.

Apollo Chamber Players is delving into its 16th season, themed “Silenced Voices” with perhaps its most thought provoking and poignant programming yet meant to explore the historical and ongoing efforts to ban, censor and marginalize. The four-concert season is will feature world premieres and commissions, a free satellite series and Library Voyage concerts, a new album titled “Trace of Time” and the introduction of the group’s new violist Aria Cheregosha.

The Dutch baritone Thomas Oliemans visits the haunts of great composers. And the air clears, just a little.

The songwriting brothers were famously compatible. Their heirs, however, are disputing the split of foreign royalties. Suits are filed.

You probably haven’t heard of 1921’s ‘Shuffle Along,’ but its Broadway influence can’t be overlooked.

(New York Jewish Week) — After a two-year COVID-imposed hiatus, New York’s Celebrate Israel Parade returns Sunday following a push by organizers to recruit marchers representing the “vast mosaic of