Listening to music in the dark is not unprecedented, even in public. One venerable option is to close one’s eyes. Some listeners, depending on the repertoire, go further and fall asleep. Snoring ...

Few doors in classical music have slammed as hard as the one that closed behind Charles Dutoit when he quit l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in 2002. Probably no one foresaw that the 25 years the ...