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Cole-Porter

Coming Attractions: Culture Vulture’s October Picks

by Helen Epstein I’m looking forward to what looks to be the best fall foliage season in years in the Berkshires. American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell at the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA through October 12. A very popular summer exhibit has been held over. It covers Rockwell’s entire 65-year career, interpreted and […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured Tagged: Barrington Stage, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cole-Porter, Culture Vulture, First Monday at Jordan Hall, Gloucester, kiss me kate, La Cause des Livres, Lyric stage company of boston, Norman Rockwell, October picks, Pittsfield, Rockwell Museum, Susan Erony, The Laramie Project, White-Ellery House

Patricia Barber brings ‘The Cole Porter Mix’ to Massachusetts

by J. R. Carroll Just a heads up to our readers that Patricia Barber will bring her quartet to the Regattabar for two shows on Wednesday evening, February 11th, and, for those in the Metro-West area, to the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton on Thursday evening, February 12th. We expect she and her compatriots […]

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Jazz, Music Tagged: Cole-Porter, Iron Horse Music Hall, Jazz, Music, Patricia-Barber, Regattabar

Music Review: Patricia Barber’s `The Cole Porter Mix’

by J.R. Carroll “Singer/songwriter” is not a description often applied to jazz musicians, and generally with good reason: Jazz instrumentalists have demonstrated again and again that as wordsmiths they are, well, outstanding instrumentalists. At best, the typically after-the-fact lyrics strive uneasily for either social uplift or hipster knowingness; at worst, they are just embarrassingly lame. […]

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Featured, Jazz Tagged: Blue-Note, Cole-Porter, Featured, Jazz, Patricia-Barber

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