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This was a band that took its reunion as a personal challenge to come off as reckless as they did in their prime.
At least waiting for Andris Nelsons to take over the orchestra is done. And we don’t have to bide too much time before we get to hear more from him: his first subscription series with the BSO kicks off on Wednesday.
A People’s History of the New Boston takes the “grassroots” view and tries to give overdue credit to the role that community activists and neighborhood residents played in building the “New Boston.”
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual art, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
The Witch-Hunt Narrative is an extremely important book about an ongoing phenomenon that will not go away anytime soon.
Contextualizing is everything. And that’s particularly true of Last Days in Vietnam, where the odious things Americans did there weigh down the ostensible heroics shown in our exiting the country.
In The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, H. L. Mencken comes off as a marvelously mellowed master, his trademark savagery smoothed over, its energy focused on generating a pungently picturesque vision of a vanished America.
Never mind all the timeless melodies Glenn Tilbrook’s written: Anyone who can rhyme the name Persephone with “incessantly” deserves immortality for that alone.
In F, vertigo is often palpable. Evil exists. “The terrifying beauty of things” does, too.
Classical Music Commentary: What’s Next for the Boston Symphony? — Lessons from the Past