Tamir Hendelman's remarkable keyboard skills are matched by his immense versatility. He's an award-winning composer and popular session player who brings all-star talent to every gig.
Despite "Middle C"'s relative cheeriness, the novel passes a tough sentence on the human race, so uncompromising that its protagonist has a hard time writing it down.
In the end, the technological snafu probably did more than the musical selections themselves to prove that listening to symphonic music 'live' is not a stuffy affair.
There is a steadiness about Nicholas Roe's writing that is deceptive; the life in the Life does not jump off the page, but it accumulates during the reading so that something of what it felt…
Frederic Franklin was the repository of much of the tradition of 20th century ballet, and he carried on these values by personifying the essence of the genre.
May is inevitably one of the busiest times of year on the Latin, gospel, and R&B concert calendars as promoters hold Mother's Day's events and try to lure audiences indoors one last time…
The first Boston Calling Music Festival, plus Buffalo Tom, Mean Creek, Andrea Gillis, and Math the Band.
A two week stay in Paris, April 11 through 26, delivered the sights and sounds crooned about in the well-known songs.
Chhandika is dedicated to keeping the intricate and expressive art form of Kathak dance relevant to contemporary audiences, particularly to those who are not familiar with the Ramayana.
The best rock biopics, like "24 Hour Party People," "I'm Not There," and "The Doors," aren't afraid to get a little weird, even if it means throwing verifiable facts to the wind.
The best parts of this book of interviews come when Charles Mingus or his collaborators talk about the music.
Knowledge-burdened Ph.D.'s and passionate young mothers, deep into their problems and their futures. You had to compete to converse.
One of the world's greatest bass players recently enthralled a standing-room only crowd with a masterful performance, and the attendees could not have numbered more than 75 people.
Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys specializes in modern psychedelic rock stripped of the jam-band baggage.
Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laâbi's autobiographical fiction draws deeply on his own childhood in Fez during the late 1940s and especially the 1950s.
I was curious to see how the Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent events would filter into the fest. It began with my Facebook newsfeed displaying "Going to Worcester to blow off steam"-ty…
There was probably no better summing up of Woodstock Nation than the lines, "Sometimes, I feel, like a motherless child/A long ways from my home."
James Longenbach's ear for the nuances of diction, tone, stress, and the material aspects of poetry is so good, and his grasp of context and biography so assured, one wonders why the essays …
In her groundbreaking study, Tufts University professor Alisha Rankin revises the history of medicine by showing that women, presumed to be marginal in the development early modern medicine,…
Ten Freedom Summers is a masterful, supple series of compositions that has the gravitas of a major work that also, from time to time, it swings dramatically.
Moving restlessly between independence and interdependence in style and content, the lecture captures the changeling quality that Gish Jen associates with those who must creatively manage mu…
The wizards of mandolin and jazz piano were in perfect sync, blending styles and breaking barriers.
Pianist Donal Fox is a classical musician by training, and in style, with a yen for improvisation and, one might add, an unwillingness to let things be.
Michael Wolfe’s superb translations of classic epitaphs from the Greek Anthology begins in prehistory and ends in the sixth century C.E. Cut These Words Into My Stone: Ancient Greek Ep…
The emotional peak of the entire night was Bob Dylan's gently understated performance of "What Good Am I?" from 1989's Oh Mercy.