Bach's Cello Suites, says the cellist, are '[m]asterpieces by perhaps the greatest composer who ever lived' that 'give every cellist who plays them not only a lesson on the magnificent possibilities the instrument offers but also a glimpse into the world beyond...'
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Music Review: Bridge Chamber Virtuosi – ‘Bridge Chamber Virtuosi’
Asian folk music and 20th century history inform this collection of modern classical works for Western strings and the Chinese lute called the pipa.
Read More »New Orleans: 10 Years After Hurricane Katrina, an Uneven Recovery
While residents' attitudes have turned positive on average, great racial and neighborhood disparities remain.
Read More »Music Review: The Ragpicker String Band – ‘The Ragpicker String Band’
A loving tribute to the great traditions of country blues.
Read More »Reader Giveaway: Win Dee Dee Bridgewater’s New Orleans Tribute Album Marking Hurricane Katrina’s 10th Anniversary
Recorded with trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, 'Dee Dee's Feathers' guest-stars Dr. John and other greats.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘Blood Cells’
As Adam travels across England towards a family reunion he dreads, the film slowly and almost furtively reveals the traumatic backstory of the agricultural disaster that struck his family years before and its tragic repercussions.
Read More »Music Review: Lewis Spratlan – ‘Hesperus is Phosphorus’
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer has a surpassing ability to set tightly packed texts to expressive music using the combined vocabularies of tradition, modernism, and even the jazz age.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Off-Broadway): ‘The Singularity’ by Crystal Jackson
In a rather dystopian future and on the verge of menopause, a woman is at a fertility clinic hoping to have her very last egg artificially inseminated. But things aren't going her way.
Read More »‘On the Record with Mick Rock’: Legendary Music Photographer on Snoop Dogg and More, OvationTV Show Debuts August 2
Mick Rock visits the hometowns of an eclectic assortment of top-tier musicians from different eras in the new OvationTV series debuting this Sunday, August 2.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘the dreamer examines his pillow’ by John Patrick Shanley
In its first NYC revival since its 1986 debut, the play mingles passages of naturalistic dialogue with fanciful poetic flowerings to expose depths of passion and self-doubt. And for long swaths of the 90-minute one-act, the Attic Theater Company cast carries this difficult material off with a crazed, sparkling bravado.
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