Monthly Archives: October 2025

Kosky’s K.

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Wendy Lesser

I didn’t know what to expect. The Barrie Kosky production playing at the Berliner Ensemble was billed as “a Talmudic tingeltangel around Kafka’s Trial, after Kafka, with music from Bach to Schumann to Yiddish vaudeville.” (The untranslatable tingeltangel is an … Continue reading →

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Berlin with a Bang

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Wendy Lesser

I am always happy to return to the concert scene in Berlin (not to mention the rest of this wonderful city), but this time the results exceeded even my high expectations. In the past few days, I’ve been to three … Continue reading →

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Back with Esa-Pekka!

Posted on October 7, 2025 by Wendy Lesser

No sooner had I bid a regretful adieu to Esa-Pekka Salonen, as he departed the Bay Area last June, than he reappeared in my life by way of the New York Philharmonic. And New Yorkers are not the only ones … Continue reading →

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Monthly Archives: October 2025

Kosky’s K.

Berlin with a Bang

Back with Esa-Pekka!

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