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Who do they think they are, these people who want to teach us our trade? We know it ever so much better than they do. Let composers stick to their méetier and let us do ours! Composers who write out ...

Cost: $20-$200 Saturday, Sunday May 14; $15-$150 Tuesday; $20-$160 Friday May 12. The “bel canto” school of Italian opera — which was briefly dominant in the early 19th century — is often derided as ...