Review
Conductor Christopher Wilkins and Boston Landmarks Orchestra routinely present serious, challenging programs: but there is always room left for some partying.
Each of these four projects requires deep attention from a listener. Only two of them repay that attention with the musical rewards that bring a listener (this listener, at least) back for rehearings.
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Lamb, with his spiritual imperative, is clearly seeking, and achieving, incantatory power.
Authors Anthony E. Kaye and Gregory P. Downs claim that Nat Turner would have seen himself as a Christian prophet.
For decades the MFA gave Dalí the cold shoulder, so it’s great that this maiden voyage is non-puritanical and open to the artist’s less than wholesome instincts to provoke.
When the front page of the newspaper is getting me down, I can feel at least somewhat buoyed by remembering that we live in a world that can produce such profoundly touching and empathetic works of art as Kevin Puts’s “The Hours”.
George Li’s latest release showcases a budding artist with a growing command of musical structure, technique, and character; Bruce Liu’s got the measure of Erik Satie’s music — next time, perhaps, he can take on more of it.
Despite the charges of some purists, jazz was alive in the hands of a few veterans at Newport Jazz 2024, as well as newcomers sharing their own voices in the tradition.
This, my friends, is what a capital D Diva looks like.
Book Review: “A Shared Cinema” — A Dazzling Book of Interviews with French Film Critic Michel Ciment
Thanks to publisher Paul Cronin for providing “A Shared Cinema,” allowing me and other film lovers hours of pleasure with the inimitable voice of the great French critic and editor Michel Ciment.
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