An intriguing plunge into the many sharp and woolly possibilities of the cello in the age of electronics and genre-blending.
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Concert Review: Joseph Keckler (NYC, 6/30/16)
Joseph Keckler, a bass-baritone with a three-and-a-half-octave vocal range, stretches boundaries like a psychedelic dream.
Read More »Dance-Theater Review (NYC): ‘Tarantata – Spider Dance’
A better venue with clearer sound and sightlines would have improved this interesting evocation of ancient Italian healing dances and chants.
Read More »Language Matters: Pride Week
Pride Parades, Pride Weeks, and other LGBTQ celebrations are now so regular, noncontroversial, and popular that promoters need just the word "pride" to imply that they're about the LGBTQ community.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Oro a la Carta’ – Two Entremeses (Short Comedies) by Cervantes
Music and dancing enliven these send-ups of the local ruling classes by the author of 'Don Quixote,' presented by INTAR in new translations.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Song of Myself: The Words of Walt Whitman’ by Matthew Aughenbaugh
Weaving together a series of Whitman's writings into a dramatic narrative monologue that forms a kind of selective biography, the actor pays a serious, loving, and artfully imagined tribute to the great American poet.
Read More »Interview: Quentin Harrison, Author of ‘Record Redux: Spice Girls’
'While it's true that they knew how to market themselves and work within the industry machine, creative substance was always there at the surface and beyond.'
Read More »Music Reviews: Ricardo Bacelar – ‘Concerto para Moviola’ and Chicago Jazz Philharmonic – ‘Havana Blue’
Two new jazz releases show concert jazz and fusion are alive and well, whether you're south or north of the border.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig’
Pushkin Press has released a welcome new collection of the great Austrian writer's novellas, with their recurring themes of a young man's coming of age and the price of adultery.
Read More »Language Matters in Life – and on Broadway: ‘Hamilton’ and the Triumph of the Tongue
The astounding part of the 'Hamilton' phenomenon has been the tremendous popular success of such a language-heavy show. In a cultural and political environment of violence and hollering, it's easy to forget that poetry and rhetoric – words – still matter. A lot.
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