Music
Jason Isbell has got sober, and his songs ring with the urgency of the newly recovered (and newly remarried, to his violinist Amanda Shires).
Mavis Staples’ voice and stage presence still exude power, still plumb emotional and spiritual depths.
Hardly any of the under-60s generation can tell you who Serge Koussevitzky was or what his legacy consists of.
Elgar’s brilliant scoring in his Symphony no. 1 was front and center, in this performance not an end in itself but serving clearly expressive goals.
Nobody, these days, plays the music of the Strauss family better than the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
The BSO’s Shakespeare festival has proven to be the most satisfying extended endeavor yet of Andris Nelsons’ directorship.
The English horn, of course, is no stranger to haunting melodies.
Soul journeyman Lee Fields and the Expressions explore new territory.
Music Review/Commentary: David Bowie’s “Blackstar” and Norbert Stein’s “Das Karussell” — When Words Rule Music
Both David Bowie and Norbert Stein present distinctive and subtle approaches to the hybridizing of poetry and music.
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