A fascinating new anthology collects music from the week when President John F. Kennedy took office, featuring most of the songs that made Billboard’s chart that week.
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Music Review: Nash Ensemble – ‘Tchaikovsky & Korngold: String Sextets’
A late work by Tchaikovsky and an early one by Korngold reveal the possibilities of the string sextet in a fine new recording from the Nash Ensemble.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): The Gesualdo Six Turn Grief Inside Out with ‘Lux Aeterna’
The British a cappella sextet sang baroque and contemporary music that touched on death and grieving but also love and redemption.
Read More »Music Reviews: ‘You Can Walk Across It on the Grass: The Boutique Sounds of Swinging London,’ plus Paul Collins and Gordon Grdina
A review of an anthology of the sounds of late 1960a swinging London. Plus, new albums from Paul Collins and Gordon Grdina.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): Pianist Kariné Poghosyan, “All That Jazz” – Gershwin, Ginastera and More
The Armenian pianist played 'Rhapsody in Blue,' and much more, with conviction and flair at a concert she called 'All That Jazz.'
Read More »Music Reviews: ‘Les Cousins’ (Folk Anthology), plus Steeleye Span Live and Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz
Reviews of 'Les Cousins,' a folk and blues anthology; a live set from Steeleye Span; and new music from Eric Brace and Thomm Jutz.
Read More »Concert Review: A Golden Wire, Nola Richardson, Kevin Payne – Baroque English Love Songs
A Golden Wire and friends looked back to the 17th century in the latest Aspect Chamber Music Series concert.
Read More »Music Review: Bex Marshall – ‘Fortuna’
On her first album in over 10 years, the blues-rocker's expressive vocals crackle with the years, while her guitar playing is if anything sharper than ever.
Read More »Music Review: Ekmeles – A Choir Pushes Boundaries with ‘We Live the Opposite Daring’
The new music sextet unleashes microtones and nontraditional tunings among other boundary-pushing elements of music by six contemporary composers.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): The Excruciatingly Brilliant ‘Bark of Millions,’ A Queer Rock-Opera Happening
Taylor Mac and Matt Ray's musical drag extravaganza honors millennia of queer history.
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