Trumpeter Terell Stafford founded The Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia in 2014 and in five years they have covered a lot…
Music
Laurie Anderson–composer, musician, multimedia artist, filmmaker, poster child for hipster Baby Boomers–just presented five one-of-a-kind performances, four at Miner Auditorium…
Politics is everywhere these days. Make one “false” step and you’re tarred and feathered without getting even a nanosecond to…
What do we expect when we go to hear two repertory pieces played live, and is that expectation heightened when…
No, Hansel and Gretel is not a children’s opera per se, but it is an opera, and a production, you…
You’re alone in your room and hear music.You’re sitting in a room with other people and hear this same music….
We love to put people in boxes. She’s progressive, he’s conservative. This music is twelve-tone, that music is minimalist. But…
How do they do it? The Joffrey Ballet has two simultaneous gigs in LA: the Gluck opera, “Orpheus and Eurydice,”…
Philip Glass @ 80ish When “Music With Changing Parts” premiered in New York in1970 it was at once revolutionary, persistent,…
The Austro-Hungarian empire may have died long ago but its musical products are still alive and kicking. Vide the San…
What does one say about a concert dedicated to the dead, dying and those living with HIV/AIDS? What does one…
First performances create certain expectations, second performances create more, and third performances create even more, and when the third performance…