Music
What wasn’t there to love about 20th-century music on a night like this? In a word, nothing.
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Jazz band Dirigo Rataplan explores what could be described as ‘chamber expressionism.’
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MassOpera opened their season with a workshop of a new opera, something they’ve never done before.
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Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg is a three character comic opera that combines elements of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit and Perry Mason.
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Time For Romance: But Beautiful may qualify — if I can even use the term now — as seduction music.
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His beautiful sound is undimmed by time, his sensitivity to nuance is intact, and his choice of virtuoso partners was a delight.
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If Charlie Harmon’s story jumps around a bit and reads rather like a series of diary entries, it’s at the very least engaging and, for the most part, entertaining.
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There’s so much going on in the area that’s good that it’s a challenge to go wrong.
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The Window contains an inspired pairing — between singer Cécile McLorin Salvant and pianist-organist Sullivan Fortner.
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Jazz Commentary: Chet Baker — The Climax of Cool
For most of its history, jazz has been a macho culture. Sexual ambiguity or gay-ness were subjects of derision.
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