Music
The skillful Mark Elder leads a fine cast, including the superb Peruvian tenor Iván Ayón-Rivas.
Happily, these clean, bright Craft reissues make some invaluable music glisten.
This year’s Chicago Blues Festival provided plenty of hope for the blues.
Pianist Yeol Eum Son is more than up to the demands of J.S. Bach and Maurice Ravel; violinist Bomsori brings exquisite balances and shimmering sonority to Bruch and Korngold.
Through story, song, missives, and popular gibes at authority, the Boston Camerata program looked at kings remembered for their great deeds and those commemorated for their bumbling idiocy.
Our conversation touched—considerably, as it turned out—on the current political climate and the dispiriting response of the musical world to the rising tide of homegrown authoritarianism.
There were unscripted song selections whose daring and heart made this concert so much more than a night of old beloved tunes.
The magic in Eliane Elias’s performances is in how easily she slips from one musical dialect into another.
Along with the legendary Peter Rowan, other multi-generational participants in this leg of the Sam Grisman Project tour are well versed in the bluegrass songbook.
Artist Remembrance: Brian Wilson — An Appreciation
Brian Wilson’s clear falsetto voice may be stilled but his amazing trove of timeless music lives on.
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