Russian refugee kids and their American counterparts bring a powerful message we need to hear.
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Music Review: Stanley Grill – ‘Against War’
With its message plainly revealed in the title, Stanley Grill's latest work shows his compositional strengths and the passion with which he deploys them remain as strong as ever.
Read More »Concert Review: Clarion Choir New Year’s Concert 2024–25
From Monteverdi to Rachmaninoff to American spirituals, the Clarion Choir traversed continents and centuries in its New Year's concerts.
Read More »Concert/Cabaret Review: ‘A Goyishe Christmas to You!’ from New York Festival of Song
The tradition of Jewish songwriters writing Christmas tunes dates back at least to Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas.'
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Suppose Beautiful Madeline Harvey’ – a New Work by Richard Foreman and Object Collection
With all its high-tech spectacle and stagecraft, Richard Foreman's first new work in a decade revels in the retro
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library’ – A Prison-cell Drama with a Twist
Playwright Jenny Lyn Bader envisions what might have taken place during Arendt's eight-day imprisonment in 1933 Berlin.
Read More »Concert Review: Parlando Chamber Orchestra – ‘Sidewalk Tango’ (Piazzolla, Schulhoff, Unsuk Chin)
The juxtaposition of Astor Piazzolla's Nuevo Tango, featuring a master bandoneonist, with Erwin Schulhoff's volatile cultural milieu and the explosive expressionism of Unsuk Chin made for a crackling good concert experience.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Awake in the Dark’ by Shira Nayman
Shira Nayman's stage adaptation of her own fiction powerfully evokes a war child's search for her roots – with a shocking twist.
Read More »Concert Review: Karen LeFrak – Composer Spotlight at National Sawdust
A survey of music by Karen LeFrak ranged from piano solo works to a guitar concerto with Sharon Isbin and the Orchestra of St. Luke's.
Read More »Concert Review: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Xenia Löffler, Georg Kallweit
Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, and – Johann Bernhard Bach? Akamus opened its concert by showing us that J.S. Bach and his sons weren't the only musical Bach-family members.
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