This collection of music by six contemporary female composers from Iran is an eloquent document of the driving creative spirit these composers in a time of reckoning and exile.
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SXSW Music Festival 2023: Friday-Saturday, March 17-18 (Austin, TX)
The Zombies and Glass Mansions were among the highlights to close out SXSW Music Festival 2023 in Austin, Texas on Friday and Saturday, March 17-18.
Read More »Kids’ Energy, Grown-Up Skills from the National Children’s Chorus at Carnegie Hall
The NCC's impressively accomplished young members presented a spirited multicultural concert in New York.
Read More »Concert Preview: The Hermitage Piano Trio – ‘Spanish Impressions’ at the Aspect Chamber Music Series
The Aspect Chamber Music series in NYC continues March 16 with the Grammy-nominated Hermitage Piano Trio playing music by four early-20th-century Spanish composers.
Read More »Music Reviews: Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, Impressions with Jerry Butler, Orchestra Gold, and Howdy Glenn
The first solo album from the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir reappears with a bonus concert, plus Impressions with Jerry Butler, Orchestra Gold, and Howdy Glenn.
Read More »Benedict Sheehan’s Choral Masterpiece ‘Vespers’ in World Premiere This Weekend
Benedict Sheehan's Vespers, a remarkable melding of liturgical tradition and contemporary music, receives its world premiere performances in New York City and Pennsylvania.
Read More »Music Reviews: The Beatles’ ‘Revolver’ (Super Deluxe Edition) and Lou Reed’s ‘Words & Music,’ plus Trampled by Turtles, a Boston Soul Anthology, Mali Obomsawin, Jonas Fjeld, and Julian Taylor
The Beatles’ ‘Revolver’ Reappears as a Box Set Can we pinpoint the time when the Beatles took their first giant step beyond creating extraordinary pop/rock love songs to chase even loftier ambitions? The answer is yes: It was April 1966, a mere three years after the UK release of their …
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): Brass Quartet The Westerlies Shipshape with Shape-Note Inspired Music
The two-trumpet, two-trombone ensemble's soulful, polished skill shone throughout their first post-pandemic concert program, inspired by shape-note singing.
Read More »Music Reviews: Wilco’s ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ (20th Anniversary Edition), plus Gene McDaniels and the Heptones
A box set explores the creative process behind Wilco's 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.' Plus, reviews of CDs from Gene McDaniels and the Heptones.
Read More »Music Reviews: Freedy Johnston, I Draw Slow, Jimmy Carpenter, and the Commonheart
Freedy Johnston delivers a winning pop/rock set, plus new releases from I Draw Slow, Jimmy Carpenter, and the Commonheart.
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