by Dan Lehner All photos: Adam Kissick, NPR Music NEWPORT, RI — This year’s Newport Jazz Festival continued the trend of jazz legends communicating with younger musicians during Sunday’s lineup. The Jim Hall Quartet […]
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A fun—if not exactly combative—approach to the composers showcase last night at Galapagos, presenting the work of two like-minded composers from different generations. Neil Rolnick (b. 1947), an early pioneer
Neil Rolnick vs. Matt Marks at Galapagos Read Post »
Continuing its survey of the music of Beethoven and Mozart, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra performed a program last night that was both familiar and challenging, in all of the right
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by Dan Lehner All photos: Adam Kissick, NPR Music NEWPORT, RI — If there’s one thing that the 2013 Newport Jazz Festival instilled upon its audience, it's that jazz, despite fears
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by Zoë Gorman Photo credit: Zoë Gorman Kettle Corn New Music is all of the prestige with none of the pomp. An inviting atmosphere, complete with signature, sweet popcorn, the
Kettle Corn New Music Brings Innovative Art Songs to Spectrum Read Post »
by Laura Wasson To listen to Crash Kings is to enter an aural anti-gravity chamber. It all seems and sounds like pretty familiar rock, but something very important is missing—namely,
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by Aristea Mellos Deb Oh & the Cavaliers at Brooklyn Bowl (L to R: Emily Kalish, Alan Jeffries, Dave Yim, Dari Matilsky & Deb Oh) Deb Oh and the Cavaliers played a
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"This once-hopeless festival has become an unlikely model of change…It did not invent any of the principles that pulled them out of stagnation. They simply embraced them." — Anthony Tommasini, The
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by Melanie Wong What do you get when Moulin Rouge meets a traveling carnival and Shakira? Vagabond Opera, of course—the Bohemian troupe combining traditional opera with cabaret, gypsy-style folk music, and
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