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Music Preview: Chuck Prophet Does ‘California Noir’

June 12, 2017
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Chuck Prophet’s rollicking sound now is a lot more thoughtful than of yore — without losing any of its rollick.

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Rethinking the Repertoire #14 – Sir Edward Elgar’s “Sea Pictures”

June 2, 2017
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Sea Pictures offers, frankly, everything one might want in a song cycle: sweeping melodies, evocative scoring, stirring drama and pathos.

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Rethinking the Repertoire #13 – Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto

May 31, 2017
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Samuel Barber: one of the most individual and distinguished voices to emerge in Europe or America during the 20th century.

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Jazz CD Review: “Charnett Moffett — Music From Our Soul”

May 31, 2017
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Large parts, if not all, of this well played, eclectic disc should appeal to various tastes in modern improvised music.

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Music Feature: Corin Ashley — A Spectacular Return

May 25, 2017
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The Malden resident’s new album is particularly impressive under the circumstances — he suffered a major stroke in January 2016.

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Rethinking the Repertoire #12 – Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Violin Concerto

May 24, 2017
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has an uncanny understanding of what instruments can do and how to showcase them best.

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Concert Review: Gershwin’s “Of Thee I Sing” at Robbins Auditorium

May 19, 2017
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In all, Chorus pro Musica’s production was witty and diverting, timely in spots and smart throughout

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Concert Review: Cantata Singers — An Evening of Biblical Power

May 17, 2017
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The Cantata Singers prefaced its intriguing, Jewish-themed performance with a marvelously sensory, spiritual experience.

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Music Review: Singer/Songwriter Lucinda Williams — Americana Chanteuse

May 15, 2017
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The sense of place, the passage of time, the death-haunted imagery, and the coolly rhythmic verse gives Lucinda Williams’s songs their traction.

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Theater Review: Rock Critic Lester Bangs — A Welcome Rebel Yell

May 15, 2017
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Lester Bangs insisted that, at its best, rock was an act of pure rebellion, a liberation from the prison of respectability.

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