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The Covid-19 shutdown

In March, 2020, the world ground to a halt - and we spent a lot of time talking about it, in articles, in podcasts, and in online panels and symposia. For my recent appearances, see my Shutdown page, linked here.

Find out more

Selected video

PBS NewsHour: Remembering opera singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. 5/2012

PBS NewsHour: More on Fischer-Dieskau. 5/2012

NBC Nightly News: Metropolitan Opera to investigate James Levine for alleged sexual misconduct. 12/2017

Fundacion BBVA: an interview on a critic's career. 11/2019

Rubin Institute: "Creativity and Criticism," public panel with Alex Ross and others. 10/2014

Panel discussion with 2009 NEA Opera Honorees. 9/2010

Selected Podcasts

Aria Code (NPR/WNYC):

     Verdi's Lady Macbeth: Sleepwalk with me. 11/2019

     Flower Power: Don José and dangerous love in Bizet's 'Carmen.' 2/2019

All Songs Considered (NPR): The 2010s: classical music's decade of reckoning (Tom Huizenga, host). 

     10/2019

Classical Classroom (NPR): Critiquing Anne Midgette. 9/2018

The American Interest: Zoom discussion with classical music critic Anne Midgette. 5/2020

The Next Track (UK/USA): 

     The Covid-19 shutdown. 5/2020 

     No snobs allowed: Classical music for beginners. 8/2018

The David Taylor Podcast (UK): Anne Midgette on classical music in the age of Covid-19. 4/2020

The In Series: Video podcast in the Covid-19 shutdown series "In Series in our Pajamas." 5/2020

Two Broads Talking Politics: The politics of art. 2017

Selected radio appearances

The Conversation Series: an interview about leaving The Washington Post, with Patrick McCoy. 

WNYC: an archive of appearances on Soundcheck, the Brian Lehrer Show, and other segments produced by New York's public radio station, going back to 2007. Don't miss the "Soundcheck Smackdown" in which I face off with Norman Lebrecht.

NPR: Ten questions for a critic: the state of classical music (with Tom Huizenga; 11/2009).
Performance Today, with Fred Child, Classical MPR: Changing the narrative about women in music (3/2018). 

The Kojo Nnamdi show, WAMU, Washington DC: Bassoons and Budget Problems; the future of classical music in the region (8/2019) and Classical music for the big screen (1/2011).

WETA, Washington DC: A conversation about working with Leon Fleisher on his memoir, 'My Nine Lives' (11/2010).

Connecticut Public Radio: The Future of the Hartford Symphony (8/2015) and An Ode to Opera (11/2013).

BBC Radio 3: Music Matters. Inauguration music (1/2017); music news from the US (11/2013).

"Ist dir Trinken bitter, werde Wein" -- Rilke

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