Review
How will others in the Southern hip-hop scene react to this embrace of tradition by a Southern rapper with his feet firmly in the Gangsta Rap arena?
Kelly Green and her trio are essentially mainstream players, but they explore a lot of challenging territory within that framework.
When it comes to raising high spirits, the BEMF’s delightful Alcina was an inspired choice.
The Other Side of the Wind may inspire brooding melancholy in some, but it’s also pretty damned fine.
Diane Williams’s brusque vision of a perverse life force mesmerizes.
“I still remember; I sat in his class, and I felt my future changing as he spoke.”
Without question, this BPYO rendition of Shostakovich Ten was one of the most urgent and necessary of any symphonic score I’ve heard all year.
Perhaps Eugène Delacroix is best regarded as a leader of the resistance to academic art, part of the transition to impressionism.
This set is surely one of the finds of the year.
This recording challenges our settled sense of what art music, in conjunction with colorful spoken and sung verse, can accomplish.
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