Music
Stalin, Zhdanov, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich star in ‘Stalin’s Master Class’
April 22, 2024Politics collide with art, terror, and rich helpings of morbid comic relief when “Father of the People” Joseph Stalin and Soviet Cultural Minister Andrei Zhdanov summon the Soviet Union’s two most eminent composers, Sergei Prokofiev and...
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Native Guitars Tour in Nashville: A first for Indigenous music in the South
October 4, 2023This is a musical community on the move.
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‘Only an Octave Apart’: Celebrating queerness in opera and cabaret mashup CD
February 22, 2022We are dealing here with sophisticated artists of vast professional experience and accomplishment who are sensitive to “the promise of living” in all its complexity.
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‘Annette’ is a feverish musical exposing the absurdity of celebrity culture
January 11, 2022Annette is not a musical that will be easily forgotten. Points are made, just not in a straight line.
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West Side Stories, including the latest Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner film
December 20, 2021Recorded just days after West Side Story opened on Broadway in September 1957, Columbia Records producer Goddard Lieberson’s brilliant original Broadway cast recording was my first acquaintance with Leonard Bernstein’s musical score for the updated version...
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