Music
I have a short list of the greatest singers I’ve seen live—and Colin Blunstone of the Zombies is right up there.
Read MoreNight Ferry proves to be an ambitious, absorbing score, filled with music of great color, vitality, and expression.
Read MoreIn this interview Dave Davies discusses his solo show and gives us the latest on the ongoing Kinks intrigues.
Read MoreThe BSO had a well-deserved couple of weeks off following their late-summer tour of Europe, and they took some time to regain their sea-legs.
Read MoreWe begin our survey with one of my favorite musical discoveries of the last three years: Camille Saint-Saëns’ Symphony in E-flat, op. 2.
Read MoreRod Argent of the Zombies on the second incarnation of psychedelia.
Read MoreIt’s one of the enduring ironies of classical music that so much of today’s repertoire was written by such a small number of people..
Read MoreMadonna’s show made for spectacular eye and ear candy. But what was it all about? That’s where things got a little hazy.
Read MoreEven if it’s a mite inconsistent, Anthracite Fields is a fully deserving Pulitzer winner.
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Rethinking the Repertoire #3: Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Symphony no. 6
The truth is that the music of this most politically aware and morally astute of composers needs – and deserves – much wider currency.
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