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Music Review: Isaac Shieh – ‘Caprice Reimagined: New Works for Natural Horn’
Natural horn specialist Isaac Shieh has paired music by 19th-century composer Jacques-François Gallay with new commissions by contemporary composers, revealing Shieh's gifts as a musician and the potential for continued life for this ancient, "outdated" member of the brass family.
Read More »Music Review: Blue Heron & DÜNYA: ‘Lessons from Nightingales” – Songs of Sufi Mysteries by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol
This collaboration between vocal ensemble Blue Heron and composer Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol is as beautiful as it is tricky to describe.
Read More »Music Reviews: Bob Dylan Covers, plus Ray Peterson, Memphis Minnie, America, and a Clifton Chenier Tribute
If you’re a Dylan fan, this eclectic box is a great place to go treasure hunting.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘The Royal Pyrate’ – A New Musical
This rollicking new pirate musical boasts a fine cast, sharp, clever lyrics, and catchy songs that circle styles from sea shanty and folk to pop and acoustic punk.
Read More »Music Reviews: Anthologies from the Pale Fountains and the Kinks, plus the Feelies and Kissing Other Ppl
Perhaps the Pale Fountains will finally garner some notice following the appearance of a new four-CD box set devoted to Michael Head's critically acclaimed band, which formed in Liverpool in 1980 and split up in 1987.
Read More »Music Review: Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center with Yeol Eum Son – Music of Robert and Clara Schumann, James Lee III
The summer series concluded with Robert Schumann's Fourth Symphony, Clara Schumann's 'Konzertsatz in F minor,' and a world premiere by James Lee III.
Read More »Theater Review: Elizabeth McGovern Enthralls in ‘Ava: The Secret Conversations’
Elizabeth McGovern stars as Hollywood's fading beauty Ava Gardner, interviewed by a journalist for an autobiography that never happened.
Read More »Music Reviews: Nick Drake’s ‘The Making of Five Leaves Left’ and Eric Andersen’s ‘Blue River: Live in Tokyo’
Let’s hope we’ll soon see similar boxes devoted to the making of Drake’s other two studio albums, both of which are as noteworthy as his debut. The world needs all the music from him that it can get.
Read More »Music Review: Billy Nomates – ‘Metal Horse’
'Metal Horse' from Billy Nomates is an album that will probably fly under most people's radars but it's also one that needs to be listened to.
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