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Nearly three decades after he left us, Bernstein's music seems to be in good hands and anything but forgotten. And his larger musical influence strongly endures.
This smaller setting allowed for more casual ease and intimacy between the audience and the band.
Arts Fuse Jazz critic Steve Provizer responds to Dale Chapman's book The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in a Neoliberal Culture.
A winning reminder of Sir Neville Marriner' impressive stylistic range as a conductor, a fine recording of a much-loved and -played Richard Strauss tone poem, and a striking, powerful prese…
Aspects of America, from the Oregon Symphony and its music director Carlos Kalman, is at once superbly played, astutely programmed, and aesthetically necessary.
Les Poules à Colin specializes in mix-and-match: their music channels old medieval ballads and sugar shack Quebecois dance tunes.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
The Lady from Shanghai is a black comedy of manners, a "film noir" near-masterpiece.
This disc is mainly a showcase for guitarist Nels Cline's compositions as well as his cleverness at commanding group improvisation.
Jonathan Nott does right by Ligeti and Herbert Blomstedt does the same for Mozart. You didn't know that Evgeny Kissin, the piano virtuoso, was also a composer? Join the club.
What we don't learn very much about is Elvis' inner life, his motivations, and his deeper ambitions.
A triumphant disc from A Far Cry, some fresh thinking from Giuseppe Sinopoli and the Israel Philharmonic, and Thomas Hampson, a great purveyor of American song, focuses on Chicago.
"If solutions are hard to come by -- both in terms of the socioeconomic predicament of contemporary jazz, and for American culture more generally -- this is because they derive from such fun…
The film is full of salacious details from Hollywood's heyday, but it is also a tender look at an elderly man whose current existence would be seen by many as difficult.
Every guitarist should listen carefully to this album. And then maybe some Johnny Smith.
Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is a big personality and in this performance he was almost as much raconteur, comedian and ringmaster as musician.
Gary Shandling's life and art are both given the redeeming appreciation they deserve.
I say we need this book now, but the truth is we needed it even more a while ago.
Mothers and Sons is one of veteran playwright Terrence NcNally's finest works.
Sylvain Chomet's sublime 2004 feature is a shimmering, knowing homage to the beginnings of sound animation.
Dark is not a German version of Stranger Things; its historical vision is distinctive.
From intense solo recitals to big band rumbles, Satoko Fujii can not only be counted on for exploratory zeal -- she also has the chops to pull off whatever she attempts.
By Noah Schaffer Nearly 40 years ago Toots Hibbert, already a reggae veteran, recorded a song called "Never Get Weary" with his group the Maytals. The song was about resilience in the face o…
"Our intention was something other than being famous. When you create art from that place, a song is going to connect with people."
There are 170 recipes in King Solomon's Table . Joan Nathan, a sort of culinary archeologist, tracks down the details of their origins to Biblical times.Â
