Music Genres

A Village Trip Festival concert presented an eclectic variety of music and poetry by women: Kitty Brazelton, Sarah Kirkland Snyder, Liz Queler, and more.

Gauthier’s lyrics address topical themes without platitudes and often via the life stories of individuals. This is a courageous and powerful album from an important artist at the peak of her powers.

A Village Trip Festival concert served up some wonderful Brahms; a bracing new work by William Kentner Anderson; and an "Homage to the New York School" that touched on some 20th-century music that has never worked for me.

Did you know shoegaze was still a thing?

The composer pays tribute to the Persian poet-musicians of late antiquity on this superb album featuring soprano Sara Paar.

The analogies to tarot cards might have been somewhat fanciful, but that's the magic of tarot: It becomes what you choose to make of it, as this concert and a current exhibit at the Morgan show.

Though rooted in folk, the Roches' music owes debts to everything from jazz and barbershop quartets to 1940s vocal groups and punk.A new box set contains much of their best.

This is the accomplished and often exciting portrait album from the pianist and multidisciplinary artist.

Mozart's music symbolizes the artistic eclecticism and cross-pollination audience members experience at the Beijing Music Festival.

Beltline Bones, a "new music ensemble disguised as a trombone quartet," offers an album with much variety, yet these commissions seem to lean into one another. Each engages in its own way, as all five composers seem to fully understand the ensemble's sensibility.