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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.
This recording displays a mastery of the techniques of the jazz vocal group genre.
In the age of COVID-19, Arts Fuse critics have come up with a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music — mostly available by streaming — for the coming weeks. More offerings will be added as they come in.
The Nest is a personal story — unsettling, beautiful, moving and haunting — about that most public of sins: greed.
Concert halls and opera houses remain closed — but unusual musical experiences await in this era of social isolation.
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.
Three recordings that testify to the chameleonic power of the (usually) avant-garde pianist Matthew Shipp.
These superb CDs, from musicians who are doing it their own way, on their own labels, celebrate the realms below and above us: the sea and the sky.
As Greta Thunberg travels the world, invited to speak to government bodies everywhere, she doesn’t every mince her words or try to build bridges. “You have messed up the environment!” is her shrill, righteous message.
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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