Sullivan Fortner
A diary of shows attended – good, bad, and indifferent — at this year’s Big Ears Festival, as well as comments on some of the non-musical joys and hassles.
Once again, here was the shock in Cécile McLorin Savant’s subversive conceptual daring.
To hear this performance properly. you must do a bit more work than you might do ordinarily . . . but great art deserves such work.

Film Commentary: “Cuckoo’s Nest” in the Age of Trump — Viewer Beware!