Steve Elman
Jazz groups of eight to eleven often make fascinating and unusual music, but they rarely survive.
Read MoreMurray Talks Music shows how brilliant Albert Murray could be even when he didn’t have time to polish his prose.
Read MoreThe BSO’s Americana concert could only provide four beautiful snapshots of a very complicated landscape.
Read MoreThe great mistake we make as listeners or viewers is passivity. Music deserves and needs our active involvement.
Read MoreWhat we know of mass-market choice suggests that the more choices a person has, the more likely it is that the person will be dissatisfied with any one choice.
Read MoreMuch more work could be done fertilizing the fields of cross-cultural music, sowing seeds collected from the great touchstones of American culture – innovation, integration, risk, reward.
Read MoreI would like to think that there are more composers working today who think of themselves as beyond category.
Read MoreTime to look at the maverick mavericks, composers with feet firmly planted on either side of the dividing line between jazz and classical.
Read MoreWhat makes pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet an ideal interpreter of Ravel’s Concerto in G is his understanding of and appreciation for jazz.
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Music Review/Commentary: David Bowie’s “Blackstar” and Norbert Stein’s “Das Karussell” — When Words Rule Music
Both David Bowie and Norbert Stein present distinctive and subtle approaches to the hybridizing of poetry and music.
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