A Short Tchaikovsky Appreciation

In about two weeks, I will be at New York’s Lincoln Center, attending a Met Opera performance of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.

This is my excuse to wax poetic about one of my favorite composers. No one can put together a melody like Tchaikovsky. None renders emotion in music with such overwhelming force. Very few are as accessible to the public at large.

Tchaikovsky was the first composer I fell in love with, and because...

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