Review
New CD releases provide splendid performances of remarkable American music, from Barber and Bernstein to recently rediscovered Black composers Florence Price and William Grant Still.
With its wide-ranging textual and musical materials, this “church parable” stands as one of Benjamin Britten’s most striking creations.
A three-dimensional portrait of one of the most powerful and eloquent leaders of the civil rights movement in Mississippi.
Here are some wonderful offerings to get you through the gloomy months ahead, including under-sung and under-seen horror baubles that you may have missed.
One of pianist Edward Simon’s strengths is his ability to be simultaneously romantic and clear-headed, precise and suggestive.
Ruth Lepson’s poetry, at its most successful, creates the evocative and stimulating effect of a koan.
Ludwig Hohl belongs in the line of such lucidly contentious thinkers as Karl Kraus, Pascal, and Lichtenberg, commentators whose writing oscillates between the traditions of literature and philosophy.
The range of Kurt Elling’s repertoire is astonishing and his program at Jimmy’s was commensurately ambitious.
This anthology, for all its occasional sadness, is optimistic about the future of immigration to America.
The selection of foreign films on offer at the BFI London Film Festival was of a very high quality.
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