Review
A trio of recordings help us rethink and rehear composers as varied as Barbara Strozzi (from the seventeenth century), Chopin, and Mahler.
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Now that ¾ of the Yellowjackets are eligible for Social Security, the emphasis is more on confirming a legacy of creative compositions and expanding their art of arranging with a broader range of colors.
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A powerful allegory for our techno-crazed, consumption-addicted, soul-crushing times.
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Every exquisitely crafted line reflects the pull of a threatening body politic, the gravitational force of history.
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Metropolitan Opera stars Ildebrando d’Arcangelo and Liudmyla Monastyrska headline a new recording that reveals Verdi operatic mastery five years before Rigoletto.
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This recording displays a mastery of the techniques of the jazz vocal group genre.
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The Nest is a personal story — unsettling, beautiful, moving and haunting — about that most public of sins: greed.
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Concert halls and opera houses remain closed — but unusual musical experiences await in this era of social isolation.
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The documentary covers a lot of dark and tragic territory, but it remains entertaining throughout, no doubt more than anything else from its skill in capturing the fierce, tender, acidic, brilliant, and ultimately inextinguishable energy of its subject, artist David Wojnarowicz.
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Book Review: Karl Kraus’s Prophetic “Third Walpurgis Night” — Listening to the Music of an Ocean of Mud
“Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.”— Karl Kraus
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