Barbara Hannigan

Year-end CD Round-up, Part 1: Rosanne Philippens’ Prokofiev, Dover Quartet’s “Voices of Defiance,” Longleash’s “Passage,” Michael Gielen Edition Vol. 4, and Barbara Hannigan’s “Crazy Girl Crazy”

Reviews of performances that are energetic, immediate, muscular, and simply breathtaking.

Picks for the top live classical performances of 2016. Feel free to agree, disagree, add to them, come up with your own list, etc.

Everyone on stage seemed to sense that this was a special occasion and the BSO, accordingly, played with an extra jolt of electricity.

Bill Marx April 1, 2020 at 11:11 pm on Arts Commentary: Pestilence on Stage, Part One — Karel Čapek’s”The White Plague”Damn, I missed the production of R.U.R. -- I assume it was a student production? Yes, The White Plague is...
Harvey Blume April 1, 2020 at 10:10 pm on Visual Arts Review: The Art of Kara Walker — A Mix of Cozy Charm and Historic HorrorSuperb review, well written and illuminating.
Gerald Peary April 1, 2020 at 8:59 pm on Arts Commentary: Pestilence on Stage, Part One — Karel Čapek’s”The White Plague”I recently read Capek's War With the Newts, certainly a peculiar book but as klunky as what you describe above....
Marion Freedman-gurspan April 1, 2020 at 5:49 pm on Arts Commentary: Big Art — Big GreedThe daily free programming is not to be sneezed at. It sometimes has well-known performers and sometimes offers a chance...
Thomas Clifton March 29, 2020 at 11:54 am on Book Review: “Where the Crawdads Sing” — Are the Rural Poor Noble Savages?I was generally confused, to this day, why people are raving about this book. It was literary trash.