Music
The BMOP’s opening concert featured the group succeeding at an important part of its mission: to perform unfairly overlooked American music.
The central mystery of the life of Brian Wilson: How did such a sweet and fragile soul create such complex and enduring music?
As confessions of rock decadence go, Lol Tolhust’s are fairly tame stuff.
Singer Bobby Rush is not just a world-class entertainer, but also one of the last masters of traditional blues.
The intellectual and emotional intelligence of the docket stands as a conspicuous example of exemplary programmatic creativity.
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Frieze is, without a doubt, one of the major symphonic scores of our century.
To speak with Jörg Widmann is to encounter a mind furiously at work and aware of his craft as viewed through the lens of Western history.
The Lost Songs of St. Kilda is a disc that’s simple but profound, beautiful and enduring.
It is unlikely that any other BSO concert this year will top Thursday night’s performance of Richard Strauss’s opera Der Rosenkavalier.
We’re reminding everyone that fighting corruption and injustice is hard work, but it can be fun as hell too.
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