Tagged: Lawrence Toppman

• Perick Rejoins CSO and Rocks One-Of-A-Kind Wagner · March 24, 2025
• Charlotte Symphony Unveils 2025-26 Season Like No Other · March 11, 2025
• Charlotte Symphony: The Extroversion Worked, the Introversion Did Not · March 10, 2025
• “Become Ocean:” A moving immersion in deep creative waters · March 3, 2025
• ‘Havana’ good time with Zamora, Mambo Kings, Charlotte Symphony · February 24, 2025
• Here’s an “Enigma:” Where Does the Charlotte Symphony Find Strong Guest Conductors? · February 17, 2025
• Charlotte Symphony Concert: Half Killer, Half Filler · February 3, 2025
• Charlotte Symphony Serves A Nourishing Meal of Small Musical Plates · January 13, 2025
• ‘Cody Fry Christmas’ as Easygoing and Agreeable as Its Star · December 9, 2024
• Kwamé Ryan Proves Why His Charlotte Symphony Hiring Matters · November 25, 2024
• A Dance of Life with Beethoven and Beyoncé · November 18, 2024
• Charlotte Symphony Goes into the Great Unknowns · November 11, 2024
• Clyne, Bartok Make Charlotte Symphony Opener Worthwhile · October 28, 2024
• Charlotte Symphony Meets Sphinx Virtuosi in a Concert Like No Other · October 10, 2024
• A Cello Conversation with Bach · September 9, 2024
• Bach Akademie of Charlotte Tours the World for the First Time · June 20, 2024
• Rained-out Summer Pops Still A Fun Kickoff for Charlotte Symphony · June 10, 2024
• A Voyage Into Deep Space with the Charlotte Symphony · May 20, 2024
• Charlotte Symphony’s MERGE A New, Energizing Classical Party · May 14, 2024
• Charlotte Symphony Roadshow Takes Music to the Masses · May 1, 2024
• Warren-Green Sails Through Deep Waters with Charlotte Symphony · April 29, 2024
• Ryan Delivers Tasty Meat-and-Potatoes Concert with Charlotte Symphony · April 8, 2024
• A Musical Journey: Unearthing Oskar Böhme and Julia Perry’s Brilliance at the Charlotte Symphony · March 25, 2024
• Pianist Cann Electrifies an Otherwise Staid Concert · March 4, 2024
• Fullana’s Fire, Harada’s Charm Light Up Knight Theater · February 19, 2024
• Charlotte Symphony Gets the Blues · January 22, 2024
• Love, Music, and Secrets: Carey Mulligan Shines in ‘Maestro’ – A Riveting Tale of Leonard Bernstein’s Life · December 6, 2023
• Kwamé Ryan Leads Orchestra from Fearful Whispers to Heaven-Storming Prayers · November 20, 2023
• From Faust to Triumph: A Night of Orchestral Wonders · October 23, 2023
• Musical Metamorphosis: Melissa White Shines at the Charlotte Symphony · October 9, 2023
• Fleming Defies Time, Genre Boundaries in Charlotte Symphony Gala · September 21, 2023
• Bach Akademie Charlotte Closes with Old-School, New-School Bachs · June 14, 2023
• Bach Akademie Charlotte Springs into Christmas · June 12, 2023
• Jandali’s Ear-Catching Concertos Link East, West and Charlotte · May 12, 2023
• Symphony Unfurls Rachmaninov in His Long, Emotional Glory · May 1, 2023
• Saint-Georges Gets His Moment, 224 Years After His Death · April 21, 2023
• Has Jessica Cottis Pulled Ahead in CSO’s Music Director Race? · March 27, 2023
• Why The New Charlotte Symphony Season Matters Next Year More Than Ever · March 17, 2023
• A Happy Union of Erik and Igor and Ludwig and Paolo · March 13, 2023
• Mei-Ann Chen Makes a Triumphant Return with Charlotte Symphony · February 27, 2023
• Sparkling Grieg, Somber Brahms · February 13, 2023
• Parameswaran + Sibelius + CSO = Excitement · February 6, 2023
• Ryan Joins List of Top Contenders for Charlotte Symphony Job · January 16, 2023
• Charlotte Symphony Fantastique in Berlioz Under Yashima · November 21, 2022
• Will Long, Layered ‘Tár’ Satisfy Non-Classical Fans? · November 3, 2022
• Charlotte Symphony nowhere near its best in “Pastoral” concert · October 31, 2022
• Satisfying Strauss, Less Satisfying Elgar in Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Season-Opener · October 10, 2022
• Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Concert Brings Balm to A Reeling City · October 3, 2022
• “Omar” Triumphs, “Unholy Wars” Struggles · June 7, 2022
• In Spoleto Festival Chamber Music Series, Last Minute Changes Can Be Good News · June 6, 2022
• “Angelus,” Lupanu’s Violin Highlight A Mixed-bag Concert · April 23, 2022
• Another Prime Candidate for Charlotte Symphony’s Baton · March 28, 2022
• Corigliano Symphony Shows Charlotte’s Orchestra at Its Most Dazzling · February 26, 2022
• Unconventional “Pathétique” Caps Unusual Charlotte Symphony Concert · February 12, 2022
• Conductor Cottis, CSO Catch Fire with Lesser-Known Works · January 29, 2022
• Cox Conquers Knight Theater in Scaled-Down Symphony Program · October 30, 2021
• Charlotte Ballet’s 50th Anniversary Concert Looks Mostly to the Future · October 8, 2021
• Looking for love in all the wrong places · December 30, 2020
• The greatest composer? Perhaps. The unhealthiest? Indisputably. · December 16, 2020
• Audio: The Life and Times of Beethoven · December 15, 2020
• Ten underrated pieces you should know · December 2, 2020
• Beethoven’s Napoleonic complex · November 18, 2020
• The Unholy Grail · November 4, 2020
• Beethoven on speed · October 21, 2020
• Lenny and Ludwig · October 7, 2020
• The Curse of 9 · September 23, 2020
• Naming of parts · September 9, 2020
• Did Beethoven invent anything? · August 26, 2020
• A disastrous outpouring of genius · August 12, 2020
• Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony · July 29, 2020
• The journey that saved Beethoven’s life · July 15, 2020
• Was Beethoven Black? · July 1, 2020
• The greatest opera with no good tunes · June 17, 2020
• A pitcher of cool water in a musical desert · June 16, 2020
• “Knock out his front teeth!” · June 3, 2020
• Ludwig and Wolfgang · May 20, 2020
• The strange saga of Beethoven’s skull · May 6, 2020
• Taking Ludwig van Beethoven a part · April 22, 2020
• What the deaf man heard · April 8, 2020
• The father of the tone poem · March 25, 2020
• “Wendy:” A Peter Pan for modern America · March 12, 2020
• The grim Beethoven? Partly a myth. · March 11, 2020
• Review: Pixar moves “Onward” with a comic tale of magic · March 5, 2020
• The Mass-terpiece We Seldom Hear · February 26, 2020
• I don’t love Beethoven · February 12, 2020
• Oscars 2020 Predictions: A Viewer’s Guide to Who Will Win · February 4, 2020
• Five Things I Learned from My Year with Mozart · January 23, 2020
• Lorenzo Da Ponte: Mozart’s other half · January 16, 2020
• Genius: Neither brains nor sweat · January 9, 2020
• Mozart and Masons · January 2, 2020
• 10 Mozart pieces you need to hear · December 26, 2019
• Separating the Artist from the Art · December 19, 2019
• No Top 40 for Wolfgang! · December 12, 2019
• The myth of the pauper’s grave · December 5, 2019
• Stepping into dead men’s shoes · November 28, 2019
• Music: HIP or Un-HIP? · November 21, 2019
• Daddy Dearest – or was he? · November 14, 2019
• Review: ‘Pipe Dreams’ Strikes A Competitive Chord · November 13, 2019
• A keyboard in every home? Once upon a time…. · November 7, 2019
• More milk! Bigger children! But not sexier sharks. · October 31, 2019
• Why is ‘Don Giovanni’ the world’s greatest opera? · October 24, 2019
• Do composers marry the wrong people? · October 17, 2019
• Classical Music’s Greatest Utility Infielder · October 10, 2019
• Amadeus? Never heard of him. · October 3, 2019
• Don’t get history lessons from Hollywood · September 26, 2019
• Bach, Mozart, beer and me · September 19, 2019
• The Only Composer Everybody Loved · September 12, 2019
• What IS a genius, anyway? · September 5, 2019
• Mozart good enough to eat · August 29, 2019
• The Concertos Mozart Never Wrote · August 22, 2019
• Mozart’s Music: Shorthand for Arrogance · August 15, 2019
• Do Mozart and Asia go together? · August 8, 2019
• Wolfgang Mozart: Father of the gig economy · August 1, 2019
• Turkey – a delight and a terror to Vienna · July 25, 2019
• Why Mozart wasn’t hard to Handel · July 18, 2019
• Composer prodigies: Baby geniuses? Maybe…. · July 11, 2019
• Mozart the Patriot: Missing In Action · July 4, 2019
• Grieving a mother’s death in music · June 27, 2019
• Nobody dances to Wolfie · June 20, 2019
• Making A Masterpiece Out of Mediocrity · June 13, 2019
• The Mozart of Broadway · June 6, 2019
• Dispatch from Spoleto: Hypnotic Movements · June 3, 2019
• Live with Mozart, be buried with Beethoven · May 30, 2019
• Dispatch from Spoleto: A Night at the Theater · May 29, 2019
• Mozart without …ummm…cojones · May 9, 2019
• Exactly when does genius begin? · May 2, 2019
• An Entire Universe in a Single Keyboard · April 25, 2019
• Was Mozart a Christian Composer? · April 18, 2019
• His Frenemy, Yes – but Not His Killer · April 11, 2019
• Are dying composers sending us a message? · April 4, 2019
• Are aliens enjoying Mozart right now? · March 28, 2019
• Mozart’s Invisible Sister · March 21, 2019
• The filthy Mozart · March 14, 2019
• Honey, I Shrunk the Concertos · March 7, 2019
• What if Mozart had lived to be a Grandpa? · February 28, 2019
• The instrument nobody loved – except Mozart · February 21, 2019
• Wolfgang Mozart, honorary Jew · February 14, 2019
• King of the prodigies? It’s a four-way tie. · February 7, 2019
• Johnny Mozart · January 31, 2019
• My Year with Mozart · January 24, 2019