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Here’s hoping that Adam Sherman and Robin Lane remain a creative item and continue to write and record new material. Both are in late-career resurgences and have devoted fans that fill the smaller clubs they typically perform in to the brim.
Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel of an ordinary soldier’s life in the trenches of WWI remains shocking and shattering today.
“When I think about blues music, I think about the musicians that came before me and what they had to say, all of those amazing guitar players. They were really playing a form of protest music.”
A pair of pleasant traversals of the French master’s complete piano music, or thereabout, from the still-relative-newcomer Seong-Jin Cho and the established Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
Violinist James Ehnes and the BBC Philharmonic supply some truly great performances; violinist Benjamin Schmid revels in composer Friedrich Gulda’s freewheeling sense of play.
The Russian dramatist’s expansive application of ridicule, his picture of human society as an endless chain of fools fooling fools fooling fools, couldn’t be more fitting — it is a funhouse mirror of our times.
Two picture books explore issues of gender, self-identity, and gender stereotypes for a young audience.
The fourth and final season of Danny McBride’s demented comedy comes to a satisfying conclusion.
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