Music
We want to hear the music and see the show — so sharpen your pencil and get that dough.
Two albums, from a late master and a newbie, are notable additions to the current wave of introspective solo piano excursions.
Two pianoless quartets + two restless leaders = some of the best music of the last few years.
Throughout these Études, Driver’s playing marries tonal warmth with textural precision.
Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and the list includes Marvin Gaye, Link Wray, David Bowie, Jean Knight, and The Rolling Stones.
In her search for John Lennon, the author follows her fancy and picks and chooses which rocks she wants to look under, all the while giving herself the space to wax poetic on whatever theme moves her. It’s an appealing approach. Too bad then that the book is a let down.
Of all the biographies of female musicians I’ve read in the past year, Last Chance Texaco is the most transparent about the vagaries of fame.
Attention is being paid today to talented composers who have been sidelined or disdained because of their race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. Reynaldo Hahn qualifies on several counts.
Miss Pat, reggae’s Chinese-Jamaican matriarch, reflects on a life in riddim.

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