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Rock Concert Review: Bruce Springsteen at TD Garden — Largely Choreographed and Celebratory

So yeah, mortality was a heavy theme in Bruce Springsteen’s passion play – or what he could still impressively summon at 73 after rocking oft-mythical local shows for five decades.

By: Paul Robicheau Filed Under: Featured, Music, Preview, Rock Tagged: Bruce-Springsteen, E Street Band, Steve Van Zandt, TD Garden

Jazz Album Review: “Luis Russell — At the Swing Cats Ball”

This collector is happy to have Luis Russell: At the Swing Cats Ball with all its faults.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: At the Swing Cats Ball: Newly Discovered Recordings from the Closet: Volume One, Dot Time Records, Louis Armstrong, Luis Russell

Concert Review: Boston Camerata’s “Dido and Aeneas” — Plenty of Contemporary Razzmatazz

What emerged was a lithe, almost Shakespearean rendition, complete with moments of unexpected humor and an infectious dramatic vitality.

By: Aaron Keebaugh Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Aaron Keebaugh, Anne Azéma, Dido-and-Aeneas, Henry-Purcell, Luke Scott, Tahanee Aluwihare, The Boston Camerata

Classical Music Album Review: Paul Bowles’s “A Picnic Cantata” — A Bittersweet Charmer

Festival of American Song Records has released an elegant, touching performance of the totally delightful half-hour long “Picnic Cantata.”

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: A Picnic Cantata, Festival of American Song Records, James Schuyler, Paul Bowles, Stephanie Blythe, Steven Blier, William Burden

Classical Concert Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra Plays Wolfe and Górecki

Brimming with edge-of-seat intensity and fist-waving theatricality, Julia Wolfe’s oratorio “Her Story” is the unequivocal highlight of the current BSO season.

By: Aaron Keebaugh Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Aleksandra Kurzak, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero, Her Story, Julia Wolfe, Lorelei Ensemble, oratorio

Book Review: “Dickens and Prince” — Together Again?

The overall thesis of this short book/long essay is that both Charles Dickens and Prince embody a certain kind of rare genius combined with a freakishly inexhaustible work ethic.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Rock Tagged: Allen Michie, Charles Dickens, Dickens and Prince, Nick Hornby, Prince

Music Interview: Singer-Songwriter James McMurtry — Playing With Words

James McMurtry’s Facebook page describes him as “Steadily Shedding Fans Since 1989.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music Tagged: Blake Maddux, James-McMurtry

Opera Album Review: A Major Baroque Opera in English Receives a Stylish Recording

Aside from English pronunciation issues, the singers put over this remarkably polished and attractive opera by one of England’s great seventeenth-century composers with great panache, matching the superb instrumentalists.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Ensemble Correspondances, Ensemble Correspondances/ Sébastien Daucé, Harmonia Mundi, Licelot de Wilde, Lucile Richardot, Matthew Locke, Psyche, Ralph P. Locke, Sébastien Daucé

Opera Interview: Director Anne Bogart Takes on “Bluebeard’s Castle/Four Songs”

“We take the audience on a journey that’s not part of a traditional approach to opera.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Opera Tagged: Anne Bogart, Bluebeard’s Castle/Four Songs, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Flynn Cruiseport, The Terminal

Book Review: “Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time’s Journey Through Rock & Roll History”

Even more impressive than the sheer amount of raw knowledge Bill Janovitz puts on display is the way he expertly elaborates on Leon Russell’s familiar resume highlights to create a full, three-dimensional portrait of a very complicated artist (and person).

By: Scott McLennan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Bill Janovitz, biography, Elton John, Hachette Books, Leon Russell, Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time’s Journey Through Rock & Roll History

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