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Music Review: Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia – ‘ The Devil Rides again - Blogcritics

5 days ago | blogcritics.org | Richard Marcus

The Devil Rides Again from Adrian Raso and Fanfare Cocarlia is the third collaboration between the Canadian guitarist and the Romany Brass Band. Five years ago Raso wrote a song for the band’s album It Wasn’t Hard To Love You and ten years ago they put out the album The Devil’s Tale, so they have a history together. Raso is an accomplished and versatile musician.
Concert Review: American Classical Orchestra – ‘Magnificently Mozart’ - Blogcritics

1 week ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

The capstone of my career as a classical pianist was a rushed performance with my high school orchestra of the first movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 15 in Bb Major. Little did I know then that my at-best-middling rendition wasn’t the only thing misrepresenting what Mozart’s own audiences heard during his lifetime. It was also the instruments we were playing – in my case, a modern piano.
Music Review: Exceptet – ‘Tree Lines’ - Blogcritics

1 week ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

Exceptet’s debut album Tree Lines opens with an evocative prog-rock composition by the group’s violinist Sarah Goldfeather. I say prog-rock because that’s very much the flavor of “Mouth Full of Ears,” even if there isn’t a guitar or keyboard in sight. The lyrics make half-sense, like those of many a prog-rock band (Yes fans, I’m looking at you). Goldfeather’s vocals in their high register even remind me of Renaissance’s Annie Haslam. But Exceptet is no rock outfit.
Theater Review (NYC): ‘We Do the Same Thing Every Week’ by Robert Leverett - Blogcritics

1 week ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

About his 1957 book The Cat in the Hat Theodore Geisel once said, “It is the book I’m proudest of because it had something to do with the death of the Dick and Jane primers.” The vapid “Dick and Jane” reading primers persisted in grammar schools at least until the early 1970s (I know because I was there). And if you’re old enough to remember them, you can get a nostalgic taste of the adorably white brother and sister, at least in name, at We Do the Same Thing Every Week.
Concert Opera Review: The English Concert, Handel’s ‘Giulio Cesare in Egitto’ - Blogcritics

1 week ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

We are in a new age of the countertenor. After a long era of obscurity, the presence and popularity of the male mezzo-soprano has returned in force. Ambitious exemplars like Anthony Roth Costanzo and the charismatic countertenors of ensembles like Profeti della Quinta have been raising the profile of this once-common specialty – at one time notoriously populated by castrati – in baroque, classical, and early music circles across the realm of Western music.
Music Reviews: Willie Nelson’s ‘Oh What a Beautiful World,’ plus Quote the Raven and Mason Via - Blogcritics

1 week ago | blogcritics.org | Jeff Burger

11 Views Fans and critics have spoken admiringly about how Leonard Cohen produced memorable music until shortly before his death at 83, and how Bob Dylan manages to maintain a busy touring schedule at that age. But Cohen and Dylan represent the younger generation compared with Willie Nelson, whose latest album arrives four days before his 92nd birthday.
Concert Review: ‘Beethoven and Bluegrass’ with Mark O’Connor, Maggie O’Connor, Vega Quartet - Blogcritics

2 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

“Beethoven and Bluegrass.” If it sounds gimmicky, rest assured it was not. On April 25 Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall hosted composer and bluegrass virtuoso Mark O’Connor, his wife, fiddler and vocalist Maggie O’Connor, and the VegaQuartet, performing music by Beethoven and by Mark O’Connor along with a few cover songs.
Music Reviews: Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill, Matt Andersen, Domenic Cicala, and Charles Mingus - Blogcritics

2 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jeff Burger

Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill, Long After the Fire. This CD is a joint project by Vicki Peterson, who is best known as the Bangles’ lead guitarist, and her husband, John Cowsill, who struck gold as a singer and drummer in the siblings band the Cowsills. Here, they serve up a diverse and mostly satisfying program that variously recalls country rockers like Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers and other acts from the same era, such as the Association and the Mamas and the Papas.
Music Review: ‘Perfect Happiness: Piano Music of Nils Vigeland’ with Pianist Jing Yang - Blogcritics

2 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

Composer Nils Vigeland has had a deep relationship with the piano throughout his career. In 2013 he retired as Chair of the Composition Department at Manhattan School of Music after having taught there for three decades. A new release on New Focus Recordings, Perfect Happiness, compiles almost that many years (29) of Vigeland’s piano music. The composer writes in the liner notes that it was his discovery of Debussy, Ives, Schönberg and Stravinsky that propelled him toward composition.
Ole Red’s Itchin’ to Have a Little Fun With Paige and the Overtones - Blogcritics

3 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Leo Sopicki

I had a rare moment in Las Vegas. Walking along the Strip, where I’d been more times than I could remember, I saw a new building and in literally a second, I knew what it was, what inspired it, and that it was about to become my new favorite hangout: Ole Red.