Review
Two versions of “Hedda Gabler” — one gratifying, the other gauche.
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Wednesday’s show proved that The Dream Syndicate more than honors both its past and present with passion and precision.
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One of today’s most distinctive intellects wrestles with the internet and all its messy consequences.
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The problem is that, as “Eternity” goes on, the film starts to feel as if it is taking an eternity.
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The film skims across topical issues aimlessly; it strives for relevance but never achieves it.
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A trio of holiday stories— two celebrate friendship, one features a stagestruck chicken.
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Though none of the works exhibit the stylistic flashiness of Fernande Decruck’s better-known contemporaries, they all suggest a musician of singular—and sometimes idiosyncratic—vision.
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The Arvo Pärt compositions here showcase a composer of remarkable stylistic coherence—but never dramatic complacency or creative stasis.
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Two good reads: Boston harmonica player Jerry Portnoy’s memoir is an unflinching look at life as a sideman musician; the other is a history that shows how, without the Black stars he heard in Memphis, there would have been no Elvis or rock ‘n roll as we know it.
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Locke’s List for 2025: Notable Operatic Recordings and a Few Non-Operatic Ones
First recordings of major works and splendid recordings of some others, from Handel to Raff and from Boston’s Musicians of the Old Post Road to the astonishing operatic soprano Aleksandra Kurzak.
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