Todd Almond continually gets waylaid just trying to be a decent and reasonably happy version of himself in this charmingly surreal musical storytelling session.
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Concert Review: Simone Dinnerstein, Baroklyn, Concora Play Bach and Philip Glass at the Naumburg Bandshell
One of our foremost contemporary Bach interpreters, Dinnerstein also consistently celebrates the music of the now 89-year-old Philip Glass.
Read More »Music Review: Noah Meites – ‘COUNTING’
Let your mind create its own pictures...
Read More »Music Review: Ana-Marija Markovina – Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Complete Solo Piano Works Vol. 1
Fanny Hensel, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, composed some 450 works. And it isn't enough to say that her music is as skillfully composed as that of her male peers. Like theirs, it has a distinctive voice (or voices).
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘I Wanttt a Unicorn Frappe!!!’ by Catherine Weingarten
The fantasy fable follows the preparations for a wedding between over-the-moon Jenny and Sebastian, a shiftless, barely-interested charmer who seems to have proposed as a lark.
Read More »Art: ‘Musical Bodies’ – Humans and Our Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A new exhibit explores the myriad of ways we have created musical instruments in our own image – and incorporated them into our own physicality.
Read More »Music Review: a·pe·ri·od·ic – ‘Aus der Nacht’ by Magnus Granberg
A work like this asks us to exercise our patience, something in short supply these days – to listen closely to a spread of sound over time without imposing expectations on it.
Read More »Concert Review: Soprano Liv Redpath and Pianist Harry Rylance – Chansons of Love
Redpath's wonderful control of shifts in mood and register charmed and impressed in French chansons by Poulenc, Debussy, Fauré and Messaien.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Xhloe and Natasha in ‘And Then the Rodeo Burned Down’
Xhloe and Natasha's shows almost represent a genre all their own. There's comedy and clowning, eros and acrobatics. There's zany dialogue that touches on deep human subjects. The pair are masters of both physical comedy and conceptual juggling.
Read More »Music Review: Pianist Ann DuHamel – ‘Prayers for a Feverish Planet: New Music about Climate Change, Vol. 1’
Works that incorporate organic sounds from outside the piano make some of the deepest impressions.
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