Music
Orchestral splendor meets interpretive risk in two Mahler releases.
On the recording “AVTT/PTTN,” mutual admiration turns into a bold experiment in form, trust, and sonic space.
Arpeggione Ensemble turns music by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Mahler into a resonant chamber seascape.
This was not genre-pushing experimentation. Kurt Rosenwinkel’s tunes stayed well within recognizable patterns of chords and rhythms, but the inventive craft alerted the ear at every turn.
Prolific avant-garde composer, saxophonist, arranger, producer, and improviser John Zorn led a sharply attuned band through knotty takes on his Masada songbook.
At Shalin Liu, Skylark pairs Poulenc’s “Figure humaine” with Civil War–era music in a program of striking contrasts
To appreciate Sonny Rollins is to marvel at the casual ordinariness of his blazing genius.
In Boston, the Boss fused crowd-pleasing anthems with a forceful anti-Trump jeremiad—raising questions even as he roused the faithful
A decade after “Fever Daydream,” the band’s return transforms moody electronics into a surging, physical spectacle.
Arts Commentary: In Memoriam, Michael Tilson Thomas (1944-2026)
Early promise, enduring vision, and a lifetime of well-timed reinvention.
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