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Steve Elman

Coming Attractions: February 26 Through March 14 — What Will Light Your Fire

As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Bill-Marx, Blake Maddux, Jon Garelick, Matt Hanson, Merli V. Guerra, Noah Schaffer, peter-Walsh, Steve Elman, Tim Jackson

Coming Attractions: February 12 Through 28 — What Will Light Your Fire

As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Bill-Marx, Jon Garelick, Jonathan Blumhofer, Matt Hanson, Merli V. Guerra, Noah Schafer, peter-Walsh, Steve Elman, Tim Jackson

Music Concert Preview: Where to Hear “The Place Between” — In the Months Ahead

Here are some recommendations of concerts with hybrid works coming to the Boston area in the months ahead.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Big Bandwagon, Boston Conservatory Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Donal Fox, Jason Moran, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, Mark Harvey, New England Conservatory Jazz Studies and Contemporary Musical Arts Department, Ran Blake, Steve Elman

Music Commentary: The Place Between “Classical” and “Jazz” Becomes a Destination

2022 was a year in which hybrid musical forms reached more Boston audiences than ever before. 2023 promises to open even more doors. The Place Between is no longer dangerous territory, a detour, or a side road. It has become a destination in itself.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Boston-Lyric-Opera, Donal Fox, Duke Ellington, Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil-Rose, Steve Elman, The Boston Modern Orchestra Project

Music Perspective: The Context of Wadada Leo Smith’s 12 String Quartets

Wadada Leo Smith is among the most prolific composers of string quartets in the modern era, the only Black composer to have written so many, and one of the most adventurous writers of quartets in terms of his notation system and the distinctiveness of his musical language.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Ankhrasmation, RedKoral, RedKoral Quartet, Steve Elman, String Quartets, String Quartets Nos.1-12, TUM, Tum Records, Wadada Leo Smith

Classical Album Review: Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartets Nos. 1 – 12, played by the RedKoral Quartet and Guests

Over the past year, I’ve delved into the most significant body of work for string quartet ever written by a composer whose primary identity with the public is as a jazz musician. Here’s how to begin your own encounter with important facets of the work of an artist whose name you ought to know.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Ankhrasmation, RedKoral, RedKoral Quartet, Steve Elman, String Quartets, TUM, Tum Records, Wadada Leo Smith

Coming Attractions: January 1 through 16 — What Will Light Your Fire

As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview Tagged: Bill-Marx, Jon Garelick, Matt Hanson, Merli V. Guerra, peter-Walsh, Steve Elman, Tim Jackson

Coming Attractions: October 23 through November 8 — What Will Light Your Fire

As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in. Frankenstein (1931) Somerville Theatre at 2 p.m. on October 23 This iconic horror film from 1931 screens today with a live […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Preview, Uncategorized Tagged: Bill-Marx, Jonathan Blumhofer, Matt Hanson, Merli V. Guerra, Noah Schaffer, peter-Walsh, Steve Elman, Tim Jackson

Jazz Preview: The Scene Lives! — Local Jazz in the Months to Come

Get out there and hear some live music. It’s the best gift you can give to your ears.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview Tagged: Steve Elman

Jazz Preview: Aardvark at 50 Sparks a Jazz Scene Sputtering Back to Life in Eastern Massachusetts

The pandemic clouds over the Boston / Cambridge jazz scene are breaking up – not completely by any means – but at last you have a broad menu of live music here to pull you away from your TV bingeing.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Mark Harvey, Steve Elman

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