Music
Jimi’s sister and a Newton-based Hendrix scholar dig into the archives and come up with a coffee table book that celebrates the rock icon.
Christian Tetzlaff’s recital was a breathtaking experience, full of dancelike grace, intelligence, and charm.
In his Celebrity Series debut, pianist Martin Helmchen performed a mostly vivid and colorful evening of Bach.
For balance and virtuosity, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra plays Rued Langgaard’s “Klippepastoraler” for all it’s worth. That just doesn’t end up being very much.
These stories occupy their own, distinctive spaces but they share something intangible. A kind of humanity, maybe? Perhaps.
This is a band as capable of being as spry and unpredictable in its 12th year as it was in its first.
Suzanne Vega is many things: a singer/songwriter, musician, poet, author, entrepreneur, playwright, and actress. A number of her personas are converging right now.
In its ninth album, YMCK shows that it is becoming self-aware. They are no longer just avatars we are to identify with, but also (satirically) the corporate entity behind them, a corporation preoccupied, like all others, with innovation.
Víkingur Ólafsson’s bold keyboard presence gave us a composer pressing against the conventions of his time while absorbing everything his ears took in.
Jazz/Film Review: “An Evening of Jazz Healing” — A Thing of Beauty and Sharing
Jazz, in particular, seemed to not merely satisfy Justin Freed’s inner cravings for beauty, but it led him outwards, to others, eventually inspiring some of the key relationships in his life.
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