Music
Book Review: “Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls” — A Disappointing Look at Women, Music, and Fame
Journalist Lisa Robinson deconstructed the idea of the girl who could hang with the guys (and laugh off their casual misogyny) long before Gillian Flynn immortalized the Cool Girl in Gone Girl.
Françoix-Xavier Roth delivers a must-have cycle of Robert Schumann’s symphonies; Herbert Blomstedt’s Brahms’s Symphony no. 1 is spacious, restrained, and – too often – dull; Daniel Barenboim’s latest Elgar installment features a regrettably unsung masterpiece.
A trio of recordings help us rethink and rehear composers as varied as Barbara Strozzi (from the seventeenth century), Chopin, and Mahler.
Now that ¾ of the Yellowjackets are eligible for Social Security, the emphasis is more on confirming a legacy of creative compositions and expanding their art of arranging with a broader range of colors.
Metropolitan Opera stars Ildebrando d’Arcangelo and Liudmyla Monastyrska headline a new recording that reveals Verdi operatic mastery five years before Rigoletto.
This recording displays a mastery of the techniques of the jazz vocal group genre.
Concert halls and opera houses remain closed — but unusual musical experiences await in this era of social isolation.
Three recordings that testify to the chameleonic power of the (usually) avant-garde pianist Matthew Shipp.
These superb CDs, from musicians who are doing it their own way, on their own labels, celebrate the realms below and above us: the sea and the sky.
Fangirls is a funny and poignant survey of an essential coming-of-age experience.
Theater Commentary: Live Theater—An Incomparable Art Form