Arts Fuse Editor
Lovers of Baroque opera will welcome this release: the first recording — and a very accomplished and communicative one —of an important opera by a pioneer and master.
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This may be the year’s best ensemble cast, and that goes a long way towards making this multi-layered melodrama accessible and compelling.
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“You’re always gonna be yourself, your unique self, so it’s important to incorporate the things that you really love.”
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There’s a larger story to tell about black composers and musicians breaking into the film and TV business, but its only lightly touched on here.
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A pair of beauties: an Eric Revis quintet album and a solo excursion from Chick Corea.
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What comes through most resonantly in Apples is its envisioning of a society starting over, and its suggestion that a clean slate, accepted honestly, might not be the worst thing.
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Antônio Carlos Gomes’s Lo Schiavo (The Slave) receives its first major recording — and stakes its claim in the repertory.
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Feels Good Man is a provocative, entertaining, and moving documentary about an artist trying to retain his identity along with the innocence of the cartoon character he created.
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Long live Fluxus, with its questionable boxes of ephemera, its baggy bags of soil, and its mad prankster sensibility.
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Arts Remembrance: Fred “Toots” Hibbert — Resiliency in the Face of Struggle
As anyone who is familiar with “Toots” Hibbert’s near sixty-year career could testify, he was an artist who wrote songs that were guaranteed to transcend the contexts of their particular place and moment.
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