MY WEEKEND WITH BENNY From the PCE Newsletter Archives, this article was published in February 2018 after the "Postclassical" episode on Bernard Herrmann aired on WWFM the Classical Network. This article is republished ahead of PCE's BEYOND PSYCHO performance at Washington National Cathedral as part of a commemoration of Walt Whitman's Bicentennial. by Mather Pfeiffenberger [...]

Doppelgängers “NOT IN MY WILDEST IMAGININGS COULD I HAVE ENVISIONED SUCH REVELATORY INTEPRETATIONS” Sudip Bose, the wonderful music critic for The American Scholar (of which he is also managing editor), recently extolled PCE’s singular radio showcase: “PostClassical” on the WWFM Network. The next “PostClassical” episode is a LIVE BROADCAST of “Deep River: The Art of [...]

THE MUSICAL ODYSSEY OF MIN XIAO-FEN In 2005, I profiled Min Xiao-fen – our soloist for the PCE Gala on April 28 -- for The New York Times. Xiao-fen is one of the world’s great instrumentalists. She’s also a quintessential “postclassical” artist, transgressing musical boundaries of every kind. She’s long been part of the PCE [...]