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Music Interview: Evie Sands Won’t Quit Making Pop

October 6, 2017
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Instead of wallowing in pity, singer Evie Sands has had the last laugh by remaining active as a performer, songwriter, and guitarist of original material.

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CD Reviews: Ghost Train Orchestra’s Book of Rhapsodies, Vol. II” and Jane Ira Bloom’s “Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson” – Second Thoughts

October 5, 2017
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In two new releases, Jane Ira Bloom and Brian Carpenter complete their work on self-defined projects that are tonics for a time of trouble.

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Rock Review: Here Come The Monks — Again

October 4, 2017
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The Monks were, and to some extent still are, the quintessential cult band.

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Concert Review: Beethoven and Shostakovich at Symphony Hall

October 3, 2017
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One of Andris Nelsons’ great gifts as an interpreter is his ability to shape and develop large-scale musical forms.

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Music Review: Saxon and UFO — Still Howling After All These Years

October 2, 2017
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Saxon and UFO may not be ‘forever young,’ but their spirits have yet to grow old.

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CD Reviews: Ebony Quartet’s “Unheard” and Martyn Brabbins conducts Vaughan Williams

September 29, 2017
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Ebony Quartet serves up a “must-hear” album of music from between the world wars.

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Concert Review: Andris Nelsons and Boston Symphony play Bernstein

September 25, 2017
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On the whole, this BSO Opening Night was a welcome overview Leonard Bernstein’s larger output and of his versatility as a composer.

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Classical CD Reviews: Joyce El-Khoury’s “Echo” and Matt Haimovitz’s “Troika”

September 24, 2017
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Soprano Joyce El-Khoury sings spectacularly in her new disc, Echo.

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Classical CD Reviews: Arabella Steinbacher plays Britten and Hindemith and Daniil Trifonov’s “Chopin Evocations”

September 22, 2017
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Hindemith and Britten could hardly have asked for more committed advocates than Steinbacher, Jurowski, and the RSOB.

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Book Interview: Danny Goldberg on the Essence of Hippiness

September 21, 2017
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“To me, ’67 was a year that was different from what came after it.”

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