Review
The success or failure of this show rests primarily on the physical presence, voice and acting of the actor playing the celebrated lyric tenor Roland Hayes.
Read MoreAcclaimed playwright and screenwriter Michael Cristofer’s script is very open about portraying Emile Griffith’s sexuality.
Read MoreHandel & Haydn Society’s Haydn and Mozart is about as good as it gets; Martyn Brabbins’ recording of A Sea Symphony is one of the year’s best releases; and for elegance and technical command, you can’t go wrong with Tilson Thomas and his San Francisco Symphony.
Read MoreWhen Vermont’s Mountain Man brings us its Appalachian vocal stylings the trio is venturing into the hollers of both the Green and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Read MoreThis blistering new documentary manages to offer a fairly balanced portrait of a man who, at the end of his life, was widely demonized.
Read MorePianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet delivers some fine Mozart; conductor Hannu Lintu brings rhythmic energy and textural transparency to the music of Witold Lutoslawski; Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra don’t do right by Berlioz.
Read MoreShoplifters is a masterpiece about the underclass that effortlessly explores emotional complexity amid moral contradictions.
Read MoreThe vacuousness of the digital world and the mainstream media is an easy target.
Read MoreRams is a documentary film carefully crafted to be more than a biography of a great designer.
Read MoreAmerican String Quartet’s disc features the premiere recording of Robert Sirota’s String Quartet no. 2, American Pilgrimage.
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