Music
The music this band produced was famously challenging: it was also often surprisingly beautiful.
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The venue pulled the plug on Phil Lesh and his band after about 45 minutes into their second set, which was especially unfortunate considering the steady upward trajectory of the show to that point
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Tony Bennett was not only a singular artist. He was, by all accounts, a mensch: an early supporter of the civil rights struggle and participant in innumerable benefits, he was a generous mentor.
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A prize-winning revival of a politically rambunctious, often-entertaining opera from ’60s East Germany
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These young musicians clearly embrace their roots, but there is no denying that this is a forward-looking troupe, one that flashes no pretensions as it blows your mind.
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In any form, any format, anytime and any place, the presence of Russ Gershon is an imprimatur of exciting, eclectic, and innovative music.
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Black and openly queer women are not allowed in the Nashville club. Secretly gay white men are not doing too badly, though.
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Lost amid a flood of new music in the early ’70s, the three lps under review here never received their due.
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Eventually, former Oasis leader Noel Gallagher gave everyone (including the diehards) what they really came to hear: Oasis banger after Oasis banger. B-sides, album tracks, and stripped down versions of the classics.
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Arts Remembrance: Tony Bennett (1926-2023)
Tony Bennett’s enthusiasm for life and music was persuasive, even when it seems outsized.
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