Music
New Yorker critic Alex Ross has called the LAPO the best orchestra in the country and that appellation seems about right.
The thought of the Kissin/Emerson collaboration was very intriguing, and I anticipated amazing music making.
Juan Andrés Ospina is not just an original big band writer, but a deeply satisfying one as well.
The motto on the Morningside Music Studios web site is “keep the groove in your life.” Words to live by.
WGBH’s Eric Jackson has truly been the voice of jazz in Boston for more than forty years. This year, Boston Jazz Week centers around a celebration of Eric’s four decades at the heart of the jazz scene in the Boston metro area.
It’s not a bad time to be performing back-to-the-boogie heavy metal music anywhere in the world.
This is a sound I’ve never heard before at a chamber concert: over twenty musicians breathing in unison.
There were the inevitable crowd-pleasers on which Audra McDonald puts her impassioned stamp.
The Rosenbergs is small in scope but large in ambition; it is an accomplished and moving opera that demands attention.
Jazz Commentary: Survival of a Scene in Boston
Local music venues — especially those with “off” music like jazz — are caught in a vice, with real estate escalation on one side and corporate-dominated digital technology on the other.
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