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Fuse Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto –Revisiting the Jazz Side

April 16, 2015
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What I’ve learned from three years of research and listening is that the piano concerto is an ideal vehicle with which individual composers can experiment

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Concert Review: Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock at Symphony Hall

April 15, 2015
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Given that these two virtuoso pianists were in a jubilant, hometown mood, this was a concert that could hardly fail to please.

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Fuse Album Review: Brian Wilson — The Ultimate Rock & Roll Survivor

April 13, 2015
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No Pier Pressure is Brian Wilson’s 11th solo album and it shows little diminution of his still-prodigious talents.

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Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Mavericks, 1960 – 2004

April 8, 2015
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More composers who followed their own distinctive paths when they incorporated jazz into their piano concertos.

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Concert Review: Violinist Christian Tetzlaff, Andris Nelsons, and the BSO — Electrifying

April 6, 2015
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Saturday’s was the most electrifying, exciting, spontaneous-sounding, inevitable performance of this warhorse (Beethoven’s Violin Concerto) I’ve heard.

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Jazz Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Mavericks, 1938-1983

April 4, 2015
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More composers who followed their own distinctive paths when they incorporated jazz into their piano concertos.

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Concert and CD Review: Belle and Sebastian — The Masters of Pop Whimsy

April 1, 2015
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The pop magic that Belle and Sebastian excels at struggles to survive on the band’s new album because its dance-heavy vibe plays against their strengths.

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Restaurant Review: Woods Hill Table in West Concord — An Exemplary Farm-to-Table Experience

April 1, 2015
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Woods Hill Table is the 153-seat culmination of a vision that encompasses the locavore movement in impressive fashion.

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Film Review: “Salad Days: The Birth of Hardcore Punk in the Nation’s Capital”

March 31, 2015
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When no-one was looking, Ian MacKaye and a group of young people like him created one of American alternative music’s most important and unique scenes.

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Classical Concert Review: Andris Nelsons conducts Gandolfi and Mahler

March 27, 2015
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Ascending Light is, by far, the most serious orchestral score of Gandolfi’s I’ve heard and it succeeds to a considerable extent thanks to its expressive honesty.

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