'Twelve Blocks' further establishes Michael Stephen Brown as a composer with skills on par with his pianistic virtuosity.
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Music Review: Stew Cutler and Friends – ‘Undercover (Mostly)’
Guitarist Stew Cutler merges blues, soul, and jazz with the best of them. But he's never done a covers album before.
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Death of Classical and the Prototype Festival, two of NYC's cultural powerhouses, coalesced on Friday night, turning packed audiences into time travelers.
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Pletnev seems to model his tempos and rhythmic freedom after human speech, or, where a tempo is fast, the pace of thought.
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Both the show and the music mingle genres so organically that they actually escape genre, building a thoroughly original creation that draws the audience into an ecstatically human experience.
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The cast's many company veterans play off of one another with frankness and ease in the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players' latest staging of the classic light opera.
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A new opera based on the life of the 12th-century Benedictine nun and visionary is one of the most enthralling theatrical experiences I can remember.
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This new fable with roots in the lands of the Indigenous Comcáac people of Mexico is told with bountiful puppet ingenuity. But with more focus and tauter pacing it could have reached much higher.
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New York City's new mayor is aiming his affordability arrow at the arts.
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Ma's impressive recital was an almost nonstop whirlwind of effervescent power.
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