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For my taste, some of the songs on Kurt Elling’s The Questions simply aren’t challenging or interesting enough.
The BLO’s production was one of the troupe’s true staging triumphs of late, transforming the Steriti Ice Rink into a 1950s-style nightclub.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
What was the influence of Western modernist imperatives on an art-making culture far removed from Europe and the US?
Andrew Manze and the RLPO have turned in one of the year’s great albums: potent, lyrical, haunting, and timely.
Two recommended discs: James Brawn’s complete Beethoven piano sonata series continues while Simone Dinnerstein and A Far Cry execute Philip Glass’s chorale-like writing with remarkable fervency and warmth.
Jesse Colin Young’s best material is worthy of favorable comparisons to Tom Rush, Gordon Lightfoot, and the unrelated Neil Young.
The mainstream country trappings of the Oak Ridge Boys have obscured their crowning achievement: they helped bring the white gospel quartet tradition to the pop charts.
Kevin Leong is unquestionably an inspired choice to lead this chorus.
Visual Arts Commentary: Hugh Ferriss — Architectural Delineator of the Heroic Modern
A visionary ‘Paper Architect’ who influenced popular culture as well as a generation of architects.
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