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Jazz CD Review: Erroll Garner’s “Nightconcert” — Memorably High Energy

July 14, 2018
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Nightconcert contains enough that is new and fresh to make this album one of the exciting discoveries of the year.

Classical CD Reviews: Gardner’s Elgar, Francois-Xavier Roth’s Ravel, and Orchestral Music by Ruggles, Stucky, and Harbison

July 14, 2018
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Strong discs from Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Francois-Xavier Roth and his Paris-based period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles, and the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, an ad-hoc summer orchestra comprised of some of the U.S.’s finest conservatory musicians.

Classical CD Review: A Superb Version of Leonard Bernstein’s “A Quiet Place”

July 13, 2018
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Garth Edwin Sunderland’s new chamber adaptation of this opera’s score, is, to date, the Bernstein Centennial Year’s best and most important recording.

CD Review: Cowboy Junkies — Time for a Reckoning

July 12, 2018
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You know a Cowboy Junkies tune the second that you hear it, but the songs don’t come off as formulaic or produced for mass consumption.

Classical CD Reviews: “American Symphonies,” Anna Shelest plays Rubinstein, “The Romantic Piano Concerto vol. 76”

July 12, 2018
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Anna Shelest’s new recording of piano-and-orchestra pieces by Anton Rubinstein is one of those albums that makes you want to rethink Rubinstein’s relative neglect in the broader canon – almost.

WATCH CLOSELY: “Fleabag” — Sex and the City of London

July 11, 2018
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Fleabag is a clever, frenetic and coolly smart series, balancing humor with an increasingly dark intensity.

Book Review: Facing Up to the Damage Wrought by Facebook

July 11, 2018
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“Resistance is futile. But resistance seems necessary.”

Jazz Review: Montreal Jazz Festival — An Ecosystem That Celebrates Sound

July 10, 2018
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Berber guitarist Omara “Bombino” Moctar proved that the gifts behind the fingers are still all that matters.

Music Review: Wheels of Soul 2018 — An Impassioned Trio of Bands

July 9, 2018
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This edition of Wheels of Soul works just fine as a display of post-Allman Brothers Band/post-Lynyrd Skynyrd/ post-Tom Petty musical sensibilities shaped in the South.

Music Commentary: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra — Women are Locked Out

July 9, 2018
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“They travel the world and have for years,” says Ellen Seeling, “sending the message that there are no women good enough to be in this organization.”

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