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He came up with one of those transcendent Richard Thompson moments, one to match anything I’ve seen onstage this year.
Marc-André Hamelin, one of the world’s elite pianists, held the packed Shalin Liu Performance Center enthralled.
After experiencing, in seven days, Monteverdi’s three extant operas and his Vespers of 1610, I am in awe of BEMF and everyone associated with it.
With most of his contemporaries doing reunion tours or playing decades-old albums, Paul Weller is one of the few claiming his right to be a still-evolving artist.
Before This World is a remarkable collection of what James Taylor calls “agnostic hymns, recovery songs and love songs” that stands up to the best of his work.
Ornette Coleman’s music was avant-garde but, perhaps unconsciously, his notion of art as free lyrical adventure was deeply American.
The Boston Early Music Festival’s production of Monteverdi’s final opera, L’incoronazione di Poppea, is not to be missed.
“My idol was Pete Seeger, even before I moved to the Village. He still is.”
Jazz Remembrance: Ornette is Gone, and Musicians Reacted
The profound impact of Ornette Coleman can be seen in the reactions of the music world to his passing.
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