Music
Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness has scholarly value but, given its diminution of human agency, it will not significantly impact real life public conversations about ending white privilege and dealing with the complexities of cultural appropriation.
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Quatuor Diotima evince a thorough command of György Ligeti’s style, as well as a breathtaking grasp of the demands he makes on the instruments.
Read More Quatuor Diotima evince a thorough command of György Ligeti’s style, as well as a breathtaking grasp of the demands he makes on the instruments.
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More popular than The Beggar’s Opera, J. F. Lampe’s goofy opera of 1737 receives its first complete recording, and the performance is splendidly, subtly humorous.
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More proof that, with pianist Igor Levit, Beethoven had found new interpreter, not only worthy, but important.
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Pianist Beatrice Rana, joined by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and conductor Yanick Nézet-Séguin, plays the daylights out of Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor.
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Chamber music under Shakespeare’s spell is responsible for one of the high points of the Chameleon Arts Ensemble’s current season.
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One of the true masters of jazz, Wayne Shorter, passed away during the early hours of March 2. Our writers quickly gathered to express their appreciations of Shorter’s innovations and his long life of constant creativity.
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Two takes on the orchestral music of Prokofiev — one impish and unpretentious, the other revelatory.
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Rock Remembrance: David Lindley, A Splendidly Cavalier Spirit
Electric guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, saz, oud, Hawaiian guitar, lap steel, fiddle, cittern; if it could be plucked, strummed or bowed, odds are Mr. Dave played it and played it well.
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