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Music Interview: Matthew Sweet — Power Pop Master

September 12, 2017
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Matthew Sweet and Tommy Keene return to town to brighten the Music Hall in Allston.

Music Preview: The Wood Brothers — Broad Support for Their Eclectic Sound

September 10, 2017
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The Wood Brothers are giving Massachusetts audiences plenty of opportunities to catch them live.

Jazz Concert Preview: Pianist Tamir Hendelman — A Welcome Return to Rockport

September 6, 2017
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The versatile, talented Israeli-born keyboardist has always had a pay-it-forward attitude about sharing his craft.

Jazz CD and Book Review: Pianist Fred Hersch — On the Page and on Disc

September 3, 2017
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A gripping autobiography and beautiful new solo CD from a master jazz pianist — Fred Hersch.

Classical CD Reviews: Leonard Bernstein — Far More Than Just the Composer of “West Side Story”

September 3, 2017
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An early highlight of the upcoming Leonard Bernstein centennial is Sony Classical’s 25-disc box set.

Book Review: Punk Rock and Poetry — The Record Corrected

September 3, 2017
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There was an entire “New York School” that the punks were inspired by and a part of, whether they always wanted to be or not.

Classical CD Review: Heras-Casado conducts Mendelssohn and Michael Tilson Thomas’s Berg

September 2, 2017
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Michael Tilson Thomas proves he’s got Alban Berg’s style in his blood; Pablo Heras-Casado’s Mendelssohn symphony cycle continues to be stylish.

Jazz CD Reviews: Freedom Now — Tetraptych’s “Tetraptych” and The Alchemists’ “Journey to the East”

August 30, 2017
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If you want to know how exquisitely intuition and structure can be balanced, you could hardly do better than to hear these two new discs.

Classical CD Reviews: Sit Fast plays John Dowland and Jurowski conducts Strauss and Mahler

August 29, 2017
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Sit Fast’s performances are breathtaking for their clarity and emotional involvement; Vladimir Jurowski serves up a ho-hum, un-monumental an interpretation of a late-Romantic pillar.

CD Reviews: Joshua Bell’s Classical Collection; the Baltic Chamber Orchestra plays Shostakovich and Strauss

August 28, 2017
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The Classical Collection proves that violinist Joshua Bell is only now entering his prime; the Baltic Chamber Orchestra serves up a grim and underwhelming disc.

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