Music
Most of the can’t-miss acts on this year’s Lowell Folk Fest roster are artists who make preserving musical traditions a family business.
Read MoreReaders inspired to take a listening journey from Gioia’s historical perspective will benefit greatly from his delineation of jazz’s various forms.
Read MoreBen Ratliff’s volume about how to listen to music is full of fairly radical but largely undefended assertions.
Read MoreBoston Midsummer Opera may be performing in a new location, but all their virtues have arrived at Watertown intact.
Read MoreTime has only made the members of this trio more adventurous as well as accomplished.
Read MoreSpectrum is a stylish, intelligent, and enjoyable disc played by a couple of musicians from whom we can expect big things.
Read MoreThe set proved that Bob Dylan remains, among many other things, one of music’s great contrarians.
Read MoreThere’s a lot of music by Christopher Rouse to appreciate, ponder, puzzle over, and study in what we’ve got here.
Read MoreHilmes’ fascination with Liszt’s public notoriety stands front-and-center in this biographical effort.
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Book Review and Commentary: Testaments to the Wonderful Ears of Ralph J. Gleason
A writer has to write for the now or to write for the ages. Gleason almost always chose the now, but his best moments go deeper.
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