Music
Night Ferry proves to be an ambitious, absorbing score, filled with music of great color, vitality, and expression.
In this interview Dave Davies discusses his solo show and gives us the latest on the ongoing Kinks intrigues.
The BSO had a well-deserved couple of weeks off following their late-summer tour of Europe, and they took some time to regain their sea-legs.
We begin our survey with one of my favorite musical discoveries of the last three years: Camille Saint-Saëns’ Symphony in E-flat, op. 2.
Rod Argent of the Zombies on the second incarnation of psychedelia.
It’s one of the enduring ironies of classical music that so much of today’s repertoire was written by such a small number of people..
Madonna’s show made for spectacular eye and ear candy. But what was it all about? That’s where things got a little hazy.
Even if it’s a mite inconsistent, Anthracite Fields is a fully deserving Pulitzer winner.
Atticus Ross’ success in creating these pieces results in a listening experience quite a bit more harrowing and evocative than the lush and sunny Beach Boys harmonies people are accustomed to.
Rethinking the Repertoire #3: Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Symphony no. 6
The truth is that the music of this most politically aware and morally astute of composers needs – and deserves – much wider currency.
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