On Saturday night, Alisa Weilerstein played the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic. I have a special memory of this concerto, played by someone else, also with the ...
There’s a famous anecdote about a visit between the young Camille Saint-Saëns — at the time a rising Parisian composer and gifted performer — and the German composer he respected so much, Richard ...