Search Results: homes

Poetry Review: “Beowulf & Beyond” — A Rousing Night Out with Old English

July 25, 2021
Posted in , ,

Translator Dan Veach invites us to “pull up a bench in the mead hall, grab a brew, and enjoy a jazzy new performance.”

Rock Album Review: Big Thief’s Latest — Among 2022’s Best Albums

February 24, 2022
Posted in , , ,

Both experimental and welcoming, the double album proves more spontaneous in feel and expansive in style than past Big Thief outings.

Classical Music Commentary: Best Opera and Vocal Recital Recordings, 2018

December 22, 2018
Posted in , , , ,

A list of the most memorable opera and vocal recital recordings of the year.

Rock CD Review: Tedeschi Trucks Band Provides “Signs” of the Time

February 14, 2019
Posted in , , ,

This studio outing emphasizes superb ensemble playing; the result in a beguiling album in which just about every note shines.

Book Review: Ezra Pound in “The Bughouse”

February 12, 2018
Posted in , ,

For all his literary fecundity, Ezra Loomis Pound was also more than a little bonkers.

Book Review: “Learning to Listen” — Vibraphonist Gary Burton’s Musical Journey

December 16, 2013
Posted in , ,

“Learning to Listen” is less about a jazz journey than it is about a prodigiously talented artist for whom music came easily while his own life was a puzzle.

Film Review: “Magic in the Moonlight” — Recycling Made Charming

August 1, 2014
Posted in , ,

Despite Woody Allen’s recycling of old ideas and plot points, his actors give such strong characterizations that I tossed my skepticism aside and enjoyed the moonlit ride.

Classical Album Review: Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartets Nos. 1 – 12, played by the RedKoral Quartet and Guests

January 26, 2023
Posted in , , ,

Over the past year, I’ve delved into the most significant body of work for string quartet ever written by a composer whose primary identity with the public is as a jazz musician. Here’s how to begin your own encounter with important facets of the work of an artist whose name you ought to know.

Opera Album Review: An Opéra-Comique from 1832 Shines Again in a Superb Recording

March 10, 2021
Posted in , , ,

Performed 1600 times in Paris, then forgotten, Hérold’s brilliantly witty, Le pré aux clercs shines again in a splendid recording.

Arts Commentary: The View from Free — 2014 Edition

January 2, 2015
Posted in ,

The exploitation of the free labor of artists may finally have hit a critical mass in 2014, generating enough publicity to make observers righteously angry.

Recent Posts

Popular Posts

Categories

Archives