Recently, I’ve been hearing laments (still!) for the diminishing audiences at symphony concerts, and one cannot help wondering if the lamenters really think that concert halls are the only places where great music-making goes on. And while one might wish that new music concerts were better attended, there is something quite engaging about sitting […]

The annual SEAMUS conference, like all annual affairs, gives you a taste of some of what’s been going on in the past year or so and of some of the people who’ve been doing it. But an added bonus to events such as SEAMUS puts on, which move around the country, is learning where the […]

South of Lyon, in the Rhônes Alpes region, the pretty little medieval town of Crest sits picturesquely on a hill overlooking the Drôme. (Those of you who own cameras will know that I mean that adverb literally.) For tourists, Crest is the home of the tallest castle tower in France and of the longest […]