Review
Ádám Fischer’s reading of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony is breathtakingly clean.
Apart from Claudio Roditi’s musical skill, what stood out was his warmth.
Unfortunately, no improvements to the staging will clarify dramatist David Greig’s muddled storyline.
What you will be impressed by is the strength of the interior thinking, the detailing of the voices sorting out their confusion.
L. M. Brown knows there are certain questions in life that we just never get the answers to. Or dare to ask.
Les Misérables invites us to ponder, in real time, how people respond in a chaotic, dangerous situation.
In this disc dedicated to black heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, Christian McBride insists that everyone must be free if any of us is going to be.
I’m not sure Can You Imagine? will be able to summon back Dizzy Gillespie from the great beyond, but it’s not a bad way to pass the time while we wait.
If one of the aims of art is to create a distinctively imaginative world, than Pass Over succeeds in generating a landscape of devastation, a hopeless place filled with gaping wounds and visible scars.
Music Commentary: New Media, Jazz, and Camille Bertault
Camille Bertault is an uncommon talent. She has a crystalline voice, good intonation, understands the rhythmic and harmonic underpinnings of jazz and has a prodigious memory.
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