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Classical CD Review: San Francisco Symphony’s “West Side Story” — A Brashly Invigorating Performance
The music of West Side Story sounds grippingly urgent and colorful as ever in the hands of one of America’s best orchestras and conductors.
Cuarteto Casals brings out Mozart’s playfulness, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester delivers a solid Dvorak’s Sixth, and James Brawn continues to brilliantly play Beethoven’s piano sonatas.
Here are a handful of underground/alternative music releases worth your consideration.
If you can’t make the Montreal International Jazz Festival this time, put it on your bucket list.
One of drummer Ra-Kalam Bob Moses’s most resonant teachings was that it is better to find the infinite possibilities within a single idea than to keep changing ideas every ten seconds.
If drummer Ginger Baker’s staring into the abyss, he’s doing it with defiance and a good beat.
What I’ll remember most is how the BCE’s various choral pieces seemed custom-made for the Hayden Planetarium’s celestial projections, and how, for an hour, the so-called real world faded away.
“It was an unusual time in music when the-powers-that-be were very hands-off. They left the art to the artists.”
Classic rock (which is really a radio format, not a musical genre) is a strange animal, which has spawned an audience that apparently cares more about hit songs and memories than about who’s actually onstage.
May Odyssey Opera continue gracing Boston’s opera scene for seasons to come with such delightful performances as this.
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