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This is a brilliant book that comes at a propitious time in our country’s history.
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Biographer James Kaplan was aided by the assistance of Irving Berlin’s two elder daughters, and that makes this biography particularly valuable.
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At a time when Kenneth Branagh busies himself clogging up multiplexes with bombastic Agatha Christie all-star remakes, director/writer Rian Johnson revels in subversion of the genre.
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Nearly halfway into the set, Twigs finally turned to Magdalene, which casts an empowering light on Jesus Christ’s female companion — and stands among 2019’s best albums.
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But really, what is a Bob Dylan concert these days if not a case study in transformation?
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The Henry Purcell Society proves that playing mad can be a lot of fun.
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We are immersed for 70-minutes in a powerful evocation of the destructive culture created by men who treat women as sex objects.
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These superbly produced — and sung, played, and conducted — holiday music albums are perfect stocking stuffers.
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Michael Tilson Thomas delivers a towering Ives Fourth; pianist Conrad Tao’s American Rage is hard-edged and defiant, but also poignant and stirring; Gianandrea Noseda’s Shostakovich Fourth is ferocious.
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What makes Marriage Story unbalanced and faintly dishonest is that we end up rooting for the clueless male egomaniac.
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Arts Commentary & CD Reviews: On The Kennedy Center, Ben Folds, & Gustav Mahler