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Throughout this superb live album, percussionist Gustavo Cortiñas allows his fellow band members an enormous amount of space, and that is welcome because of their high level of musicianship.
This encouraging book highlights the preponderance of positive developments regarding the efforts, worldwide, to deal with climate change.
This biography of Keith Haring is a compendium of vivid, first-person narratives that provide an engaging insider’s perspective on the artist’s life.
“Make Me Famous” is not the portrait of a superstar like Jean-Michel Basquiat or Keith Haring; this protagonist is representative of the everyday angst, the struggle, the not-making-it, and the work that was produced regardless.
This arch-New Englander, descendant of Puritans, is also “the American who resists branding, who will not be commodified.”
Because they were masters of performance, metamorphosis, and movement — of “containing multitudes” — Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan are the closest peers to Whitman America has yet produced.
Mass in D was Ethel Smyth’s first large-scale score and, according to Cappella Clausura conductor Amelia LeClair, the composition expressed her yearning for hope and redemption.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
This splendid book should be read by every child and adult who is convinced he doesn’t “fit in.”
Jazz Album Review: Abdullah Ibrahim’s “3” – Meditations on a Legacy
A new release from Abdullah Ibrahim adds almost 100 minutes to a legacy of paramount importance to jazz, to world music, and to our understanding of a life lived in art.
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