This 90-minute oratorio tells the story of Jewish WWII-era refugees finding a home and community in Shanghai.
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Music Reviews: Jimi Hendrix at the Hollywood Bowl, Plus Little Feat, Jon Dee Graham, the Resonant Rogues, and Danny O’Keefe
Reviews: a previously unissued 1967 Jimi Hendrix concert plus albums from Little Feat, Jon Dee Graham, Resonant Rogues, and Danny O'Keefe.
Read More »Concert Review: Cassatt String Quartet with Trombonist Haim Avitsur
The Cassatt Quartet played Beethoven, Victoria Bond, and works by Joan Tower and Adolphus Hailstork for the unconventional pairing of trombone and string quartet.
Read More »Music Video Premiere: Be – ‘Shine Your Love Light’ from David Hawkins’ Art-Rock Supergroup
A video premiere from the first new album in seven years from David Hawkins' art-rock supergroup.
Read More »Concert Review: The Orchestra Now – ‘Exodus: Jewish Composers in Exile’
The Orchestra Now presented music from the 1940s by four composers who had fled their European homelands to escape the Nazis.
Read More »Music Preview NYC: Beethoven, Shostakovich and More from Ariel Quartet, Philippe Quint, Marc-André Hamelin and Sergey Antonov
The Aspect Chamber Music Series presents the Ariel Quartet with music of Beethoven, and Philippe Quint, Marc-Andre Hamelin, and Sergey Antonov with Shostakovich and Prokofiev.
Read More »Music Reviews: Cranberries, plus Lee Gallagher, the Three O’Clock, Sylvia Tyson, and Emma Wilson
Reviews of an expanded edition of the Cranberries' "To the Faithful Departed," plus CDs from Lee Gallagher, the Three O'Clock, Sylvia Tyson, and Emma Wilson.
Read More »Camerata Salzburg, Musicus Soloists Hong Kong to Headline Musicus Fest 2023
Musicians from Austria, Italy, Canada, Australia, Korea, and Germany to join Hong Kong colleagues for a series of concerts and special events from Nov. 11 to Dec. 3 in Hong Kong.
Read More »Music Reviews: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘Fyfty,’ plus Leon Rosselson, Half Stack, Robert Finley, and Chest Fever
A box set collects highlights from Lynyrd Skynyrd's career; plus reviews of CDs from Leon Rosselson, Half Stack, Robert Finley, and Chest Fever.
Read More »Music Review: The Crossing – ‘Sumptuous Planet,’ a Secular Mass by David Shapiro
The composer set out to "advance a scientific, atheistic vision of the world" using the musical structure of a Christian Mass and modern choral idioms.
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