Reference Recordings releases fine new renditions of Gustav Holst's 'The Planets,' Ralph Vaughan Williams' 'Dona Nobis Pacem, and Mason Bates' 'Children of Adam'.
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Theater Review: ‘Song of Myself: The Words of Walt Whitman’ by Matthew Aughenbaugh
Weaving together a series of Whitman's writings into a dramatic narrative monologue that forms a kind of selective biography, the actor pays a serious, loving, and artfully imagined tribute to the great American poet.
Read More »Theater Reviews (NYC): ‘Sprucehaven B’ and ‘Emily Dickinson: Paranormal Investigator’ at FRIGID New York
There's violence in Isabel's past, and now things seem to be spiraling out of control again. Ultimately, an edgy situation turns into a nightmare in Mark Cornell's chilling 'Sprucehaven B.'
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘I And You’ by Lauren Gunderson
Is your humanity an everpresent mystery to you? In Walt Whitman's world, this was something to "sing" about.
Read More »Concert Review: New York Choral Society and Mannes Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with the Young People’s Chorus of NYC (April 8, 2015)
Conductor David Hayes paired memorial works by Paul Hindemith (WWII) and John Adams (9-11) in a revelatory concert.
Read More »Book Review: Twenty-Five Books That Shaped America: White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits by Thomas C. Foster
Breezy critical studies of the books that made America.
Read More »Book Review: On Whitman by C. K. Williams
Prize-winning poet explains Walt Whitman to the general reader
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