Music
World-renowned soprano Aleksandra Kurzak’s homage to the great French soprano Cornélie Falcon is largely one to cherish.
This fine album demonstrates that the music of neglected, mixed-race English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is well worth resurrecting.
MonoNeon is the most important musician to emerge from Memphis in recent memory.
Regardless of his age, Neil Young, now 79, can still rage.
“The music I really respond to is by artists who have in some way captured a moment in an evocative way, a universal truth, something that feels honest and real. That’s what we try to do.”
But this wasn’t just a night for the hits. It was an occasion for raw, in-the-trenches rock (none of Aerosmith’s later commercial dreck) and rarely, if ever, played songs.
The band tucked two songs from its new album into a career-spanning 95-minute show tilted toward six tunes from the Black Keys’ 2010 commercial breakthrough “Brothers.”
Joachim Raff, widely hailed for his instrumental works, is finally being recognized as a significant opera composer as well.
The Mercury Orchestra explored nostalgia, via performances of rare Finzi and familiar Respighi compositions.
Jazz Artist Appreciation: Sheila Jordan (1928-2025)
Each time I heard Sheila Jordan sing live, I remember being spellbound, embraced, dazzled, awestruck, and I know I’m not alone.
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