ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — Joshua Blue is made for French Romantic opera. The tenor’s ringing bell of a voice softened the consonants and enveloped the vowels in ways no other language would allow, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook This year’s Bard Music Festival explores the work and context of a composer who strove to make art “an expression of the whole life ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Bohuslav Martinu, a Czech composer who thrived on the artistic and scientific explosions of the 20th century, is the center of this ...

He was in his 20s then, having just quit medical school when the autopsies proved traumatic and his drive toward music won out over his physician father’s insistences. Then, he wrote eight small ...