Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Shalin Liu Performance Center
Concert Review: Blue Note Records Celebrates its 80th at Shalin Liu — Almost Something for Everyone, and That’s Cool
All three groups in this Blue Note anniversary concert were distinctly different. One was shaded with a hip hop influence, one proffered organ trio jazz-funk and one, all female, had singing as its focal point.
Classical Music Review: Colin Carr’s Bach — A Trifecta of Beauty
Colin Carr supplied an extraordinary performance of Bach’s Six Cello Suites.
Jazz Concert Preview: Pianist Tamir Hendelman — A Welcome Return to Rockport
The versatile, talented Israeli-born keyboardist has always had a pay-it-forward attitude about sharing his craft.
Jazz Preview: The Rockport Jazz Festival (and Summer Gala) — Dedicated to Building an Audience for Jazz
Shalin Liu Becomes a Jazz Destination: Wynton Marsalis Headlines the Rockport Music Summer Gala fundraiser.
Concert Review: Chameleon Arts Ensemble Pay Glorious Respect to Father and Sons —
It doesn’t get much better for father and sons than when these virtuosos give their superb all for the Bach clan..
Concert Review: Wunderkind Joey Alexander at the Shalin Liu Performance Center
Joey Alexander is more than a mere prodigy; he is closer to a freak of nature, a fully formed jazz virtuoso.
Concert Review: Pianist Marc-André Hamelin at the Shalin Liu Performance Center
Marc-André Hamelin, one of the world’s elite pianists, held the packed Shalin Liu Performance Center enthralled.
Concert Review: Pianist Stephen Hough Dazzles in Rockport
Stephen Hough’s performance of piano works by Brahms and Chopin was enthralling, poetic, and spellbinding.
Music Review: A Warm Homecoming for Singer/Songwriter Paula Cole
Singer/songwriter Paula Cole’s musical and personal journey has been a long, sometimes painful hejira.