ISIS

Opera Album Review: Is Perfection Still Possible? Lully’s “Isis” under Christophe Rousset

Is it any wonder? An opera that angered Louis XIV in 1677 brings enormous pleasure in 2020.

Director Abderrahmane Sissako wants the viewer to have the golden-age city in mind when, today, 2015, we see how terrible life has become there.

Harvey Blume August 13, 2020 at 7:33 pm on Film Review: “The Rabbi Goes West” — Jews Coddled in Big Sky CountryRubin seems to have read my review hoping it was some other review by some other reviewer, someone more inclined...
Steve Provizer August 13, 2020 at 5:32 pm on Film Review: “Jazz on a Summer’s Day” — A Contrarian ViewThanks, Dan. Yes, Mahalia is something else. I will add that, as you reminded me elsewhere, the great Roswell Rudd...
Daniel J Weinstein August 13, 2020 at 3:31 pm on Film Review: “Jazz on a Summer’s Day” — A Contrarian ViewGreat writing, Steve, and though I sensed many of these paradoxes, I always just dug the film as it was....
Arthur Birkland August 13, 2020 at 2:53 pm on Visual Arts Commentary: The Bridge of Flowers, Shelburne Falls, MassachusettsLove the article
Peter Ugrich August 13, 2020 at 1:32 pm on Arts Remembrance: Emily Remler — The Short Life and Sad Death of a Jazz GuitaristIf you listen again to Emily's later albums ,there is no doubt she would have been successful writing music for...