Review
The Boston Symphony Chamber Players gave a very satisfying performance of eclectic musical material.
Peter Oundjian and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra deliver a great album, smartly programmed and played to the hilt. Leonard Bernstein’s live Mahler was often electrifying; this performance, even with some cracked notes and hairy transitions, certainly is.
Nausheen Eusuf’s deep affection for language and sound is omnipresent.
New Yorker critic Alex Ross has called the LAPO the best orchestra in the country and that appellation seems about right.
The thought of the Kissin/Emerson collaboration was very intriguing, and I anticipated amazing music making.
What starts off as a rollicking entertainment ends with a flourish of profundity.
This time around, as both a writer and director, Paul Schrader has a found a story, and the artistic restraint, to convey his elevated vision.
Juan Andrés Ospina is not just an original big band writer, but a deeply satisfying one as well.
Wild Wild Country details the insane clusterfuck that results when faith, fundamentalism, and media hype intersect.
This is an important and timely book, one that happens to be compulsively readable and that anyone even mildly interested in the intersection between religion and politics, faith and science, or religious commandment and secular law should read.
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