Music
Mavis Staples’ colossal voice fully blanketed the entire venue and tucked its way into every nook and cranny.
No orchestra in this country embraces the challenges of Charles Wuorinen’s hyper-intellectual style better than the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
There have been lots of recordings of Philip Glass to hit the market recently. One of the highlights is Víkingur Ólafsson’s Piano Works.
This invigorating, sometimes unpredictable, Beethoven-heavy program certainly offered its share of athleticism and energy.
Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra serve up some curious and, from time to time, rather languorous Elgar.
With each piece, the impressive physicality of Kodō’s drummers becomes even more theatrical.
One of my favorite quotes from Gil Evans is, “Quit playing what you think I want you to play!”
“We thought, why don’t we hark back to earlier occasions which were equal parts socializing and entertainment?”
Colin Hay need no longer worry about job security as a touring and recording artist.
So much goes on over the course of Live From the Fox Oakland that the TTB upends the notion of a band “settling” into a sound.
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