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By J. R. Carroll June brings a cupful of world jazz. [Updated: See Mose Allison item below] Photo by Daniel Sheehan While the eyes of the sporting world may be on the stadiums of South Africa, there will be plenty of international flavor here in New England this month. Brazilian born but now Seattle-based, pianist/composer/arranger…
For half a century, cinephile, production assistant, filmmaker, press agent, producer, and programmer Pierre Rissient used all his powers to turn critical attention to filmmakers he took under his wing for their unusual personal vision.
Nicholas Tochka is less interested in crafting a coherent portrayal of Charles Manson’s “musical lives” than in connecting his critical hypothesis of “the invention of the Sixties” to critical theories.
The best (or worst, depending on your preferences) aspect to Boston Calling has become its attention to youth-centric subcultures that have blown mainstream in DJs/electronic music and hip-hop.
A trio of recordings help us rethink and rehear composers as varied as Barbara Strozzi (from the seventeenth century), Chopin, and Mahler.
The composer of Les huguenots and L’Africaine was already an accomplished master at age 26, as this first-rate recording reveals.
An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
Rarely are Boston’s stages graced with a Shakespeare production that reaches this high a level of accomplishment.
“Popular music in America is already so formulated and dumbed-down that the fear of AI making it more trivial is probably beside the point.”
The musicians assembled here for the updated recordings of tunes from fifty years ago are first-rate, and Peggy Lee still convincingly inhabits a wide range of material.
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