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Features several concerts in the United States performed in 2001. Debut of Israeli conductor Asher Fisch with the Atlanta Symphony on January 25, 2001; Performance of the Saito Kinen Orchestra at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles, California on January 8, 2001; Recital debut of pianist Nikolai Demidenko at the Frick Collection, New York City on February 25, 2001.

Highlights several concerts performed in New York City. `Five Images After Sappho,' conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Ensemble Sospeso; `Symphony No. 2,' conducted by John Corigliano, performed by the Boston Symphony; `Kidnapping,' conducted by Mauricio Kagel, performed by the Schoenberg Ensemble.

Features Anton Kuerti, who played Beethoven piano concertos in New York on December 31, 1997, with the Jupiter Symphony. Author's description of Kuerti's performance; Kuerti's style of music.

Evaluates the performance of the Les Violons du Roy at the closing week of the Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. Instrumental selections of the Les Violons du Roy; Vocal music in the concert.

Evaluates the performance of the Panocha Quartet at the Frick Collection in August 1997. September 1994 performance of the Panocha Quartet; Performers of the Panocha Quartet; Description of the group's rendering of Hadyn's Op. 55:3 and other programs.

Focuses on Dmitry Rachmanov's piano concert at the Weil Recital Hall in New York City, New York on April 12, 1997. Piano pieces that Rachmanov performed at the concert; Comments on the pieces that Rachmanov played; Author's evaluation on Rachmanov's overall performance.

Discusses Michael Boriskin's recital at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater in New York City, as a tribute to Lou Harrison. Contents of the Lincoln Center's three-day tribute to Harrison; Boriskin's musical relationship with Harrison; Description of Harrison's works.

Reports on bass baritone Bryn Terfel's recital at New York City's Carnegie Hall on October 29, 1996. Parts of the program; Interpretations; Terfel's way with the Shubert songs.

Reports on Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen's recital at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Vitality and distinction of performances; Repertoire; Mustonen's interpretation of Beethoven.

Comments on a performance of Gaetano Donizetti's `Lucrezia Borgia,' by the Opera Manhattan in New York City. Instrumentation; Cast.

Reports on violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter's February 25, 1996 recitalat Avery Fisher Hall in New York. Energy evident in the performance; Notable moments in the recital.

Reports on pianist Menahem Pressler's recital in Carnegie Hall, New York on February 21, 1996. Pressler as the co-founder of the Beaux Arts Trio; Program of Haydn, Schumann, Debussy and Chopin.

Reports on Riccardo Chailly's concert with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam on February 25, 1996 at Carnegie Hall, New York. Focus on jazz-influenced pieces by European composers during the 1920s and 30s.

Reports on the Brentano String Quartet's Naumburg Award concert at Alice Tully Hall, New York on January 30, 1996. Members of the group; Centerpieces of the program.

Reports on the New York debut performance of Nicholas Angelich, who is the Grand Prize Winner of the 1994 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. Where performance was held; Information on Angelich's program.

Features the concert performed by pianist Alfred Brendel at the Carnegie Hall in New York City on April 10 and 17, 1995. Brendel's artistic goal; Repertoire.

Features the recital performed by pianist Helene Grimaud in New York City on May 6, 1995. Repertoire; Grimaud's discography; Comments on Grimaud's Brahms performances.

Focuses on the piano performance of Ralf Gothoni at the Columbia University's Kathryn Bache Miller Theater. Comparison with David Owen Norris; Repertoire.

Focuses on the piano recital of Evgeny Kissin at the Carnegie Hall in New York City, New York on January 23, 1995. Repertoire.

Features the program presented during the sixth year of the Schubertiade. Goal of the musical to present all of Franz Schubert's work in chronological sequence; Theme for the 1994 presentation; `Winterreise' cycle as performed by Hermann Prey; Symposium about the theme as it applies to the cycle and in the context of time.

Reports on the concert performance of violinist Pavel Berman at the Carnegie Hall on October 24, 1993. Father Lazar Berman on the piano.

Evaluates the piano performance of Murray Perahia at the Avery Fisher Hall in New York. Effect of his music on the listeners; How he performed the `Songs Without Words,' by Mendelssohn; Changes in his interpretation of `Berceuse,' by Chopin.

Evaluates the performance of soprano Barbara Bonney at her New York recital debut at the Mostly Mozart Festival on August 7, 1997. Performing experience of Bonney; Bonney's performance of Haydn, Mozart and Schubert's works.

Discusses about Carlo Grante's six-evening piano recitals beginning March 15 and ending June 26, 1997 at Merkin Hall in New York City, New York. Details on the contents of the program; Author's comments on Grante's performances.

Reports on the performance of cellist Mischa Maisky and pianist Martha Argerich in New York City. Works performed; Musical style of both artists.

Comments on a performance by pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin at Merkin Hall in New York City on May 9, 1996. Compositions played include Franz Joseph Haydn's Sonata in C; Nicolai Medtner's `Sonata Reminiscenza'; Sergei Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2.

Reports on pianist Radu Lupu's Carnegie Hall recital on February 9, 1996. Awards won by Lupu; Pieces included in the program.

Reports on violinist Juliette Kang's Carnegie Hall debut recital on March 11, 1996. Recital as an indication of Kang's skills for her chosen instrument.

Reports that Maurizio Pollini will perform 30 of the Beethoven piano sonatas in six Carnegie Hall programs in 1996. Review of Pollini's October 1995 performance.

Features the concert performed by tenor Peter Schereier at the Carnegie Hall in New York City. Schreier's international reputation; Repertoire; Scherier voice's lack of flexibility.

Focuses on the performance of Joan Tower's `Night Fields' by the Muir String Quartet at New York City's Weill Hall on December 9, 1994.

Focuses on the performance of Paul Hindemith's `When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd: Requiem for those we love' by Robert Shaw at the Carnegie Hall in New York City, New York on January 15, 1995.