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Popular Music Reviews: Ray Charles — The Quintessential Sound of American Popular Music

December 2, 2025
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Add these four remastered Ray Charles albums to your collection and remind yourself what the real thing sounds like when it finally comes along.

Opera Album Review: World-Premiere Recording of a Still Deliciously Daffy Italian Comic Opera from 1769

November 30, 2025
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Paisiello, one of the most successful opera composers in Mozart’s day, offers repeated delight and surprises in this entertainment, thanks to a splendid cast of mostly youngish singers.

Classical Album Review: “On Christmas Night” — A Sublime Choral Escape from Holiday Clichés

November 30, 2025
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On Christmas Night is a welcome alternative to the inescapable flood of tiresome holiday songs currently assaulting us from radios and shopping mall sound systems.

Concert Preview: The Return of the Either/Orchestra at the Regattabar

November 30, 2025
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From the start, “Either/Orchestra” was a nice pun but, with Russ Gershon at the helm, the arrangements were never this or that, but rather this and that.

Concert Review: Yo-Yo Ma and the Communion of Bach

November 28, 2025
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With youthful vigor, Yo-Yo Ma performed the complete  Bach Cello Suites, intermixing the music with stories of personal success, wishes for future generations, and gratitude for all those who make the Commonwealth function.

Concert Review: Pianist Michelle Cann Glistens at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

November 27, 2025
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Not only does Michelle Cann hold a seat in the upper echelon of stellar pianists, but she’s a great storyteller as well.

Concert Review: moe. Peaks at Intimate Armory Show During 35th Anniversary Stand

November 26, 2025
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The group’s arc over three nights celebrating 35 years clearly followed an upward trajectory, displaying moe.’s improvisational prowess and sense of communal fun.

Concert Review: Joshua Bell, Anna Handler, and the BSO Confront de Hartmann’s Haunted Ukrainian Concerto

November 25, 2025
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The destruction and displacement of people today so recall the past that Thomas de Hartmann’s music resounds with fierce, resonant force.

Concert Review: The Wailin’ Jennys — In Perfect Harmony at Groton Hill Music Center

November 22, 2025
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If ever there was a musical act and a venue perfectly suited to each other, it would have to be the Wailin’ Jennys, the harmony-laden Canadian folk trio, and the Groton Hill Music Center.

Jazz Commentary: The Enduring Enigma of Chet Baker

November 21, 2025
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I take a look back at the compelling documentary “Let’s Get Lost” because of the recently released “Chet Baker Performs and Sings: Swimming by Moonlight”, 15 unreleased studio recordings made by the trumpeter.

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