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Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Letter To Lyndon B. Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First’ - Blogcritics

2 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

The gutsy physical-theater duo of Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland have won three Edinburgh Fringe First Awards, and it’s no wonder. While their show A Letter To Lyndon B. Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First lives up to its billing as “absurdist clown physical theater,” any “absurdity” in this frenzied roller coaster of boyhood bonding and imaginative adventuring comes not from fantasy but from excesses of the real.
Concert Review (NYC): Pianist Kariné Poghosyan Plays Khachaturian - Blogcritics

2 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

When Armenian pianist Kariné Poghosyan played the “Toccata” by Aram Khachaturian last year at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, it was in the context of a jazz-themed program. This year she returned to the venue with an all-Khachaturian program that underscored her affinity for her countryman’s music. The lush Romanticism of the “Adagio” from the ballet Spartacus can feel indulgent.
Music & Film Reviews: Frank Zappa’s ‘Cheaper Than Cheep,’ plus Janis Ian, Christian Parker, Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed, and Big Love Car Wash - Blogcritics

2 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jeff Burger

Frank Zappa and his band, the Mothers of Invention, were riding high in June 1974. They’d just completed a 10th-anniversary tour and, only three months earlier, had released Apostrophe (’), their first and only Top 10 album. Energized by those successes, they filmed a two-hour concert for a small, invited audience on June 21 in their Hollywood, California rehearsal hall.
Theater Review (NYC): Shakespeare’s ‘Henry V’ from Smith Street Stage - Blogcritics

2 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

The most stirring portrayal I can remember of Shakespeare’s King Henry V is the one by a woman, McLean Peterson, in Smith Street Stage’s current production at Carroll Park. Is that ironic? No. It is not ironic. Acting is pretending you’re someone else, distinctions and identities like gender be damned. And that’s all I’m going to say about it. The production’s merits go beyond hard-hitting performances.
Opera Review: ‘Zemlinskys Zimmer (Zemlinsky’s Room)’ from the little OPERA theatre of ny - Blogcritics

3 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

An ongoing revival of the music of Alexander Zemlinsky takes to the stage at BAM Fisher this weekend as the little OPERA theatre of ny delivers what it calls Zemlinskys Zimmer (in English, Zemlinsky’s Room). The production, built around the one-act opera Eine Florentinische Tragödie, op. 16, adds material from Zemlinsky’s vocal and instrumental oeuvre, and as such provides an excellent introduction to the Vienna-born composer for those who aren’t familiar with him.
Book Review: ‘The Paper Birds’ by Jeanette Lynes - Blogcritics

3 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Richard Marcus

On the surface The Paper Birds by Jeanette Lynes is a novel set during WW ll. However, like two of her previous works, The Apothecary’s Garden and The Small Things That End The World, it also uses the historical context to give us a picture of the struggles women face trying to survive on their own. “The Paper Birds” of Lynes title refers to a group of women who work as code breakers for the Canadian intelligence services during the war.
Music & Film Reviews: ‘Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII’ (2025 Editions), plus Julee Cruise and Emma Wilson - Blogcritics

3 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jeff Burger

4 Views Pink Floyd conquered the world with its eighth LP, 1973’s Dark Side of the Moon, which became one of the bestselling albums of all time. Its music is certainly adventurous, but to these ears, not quite as experimental—or exciting—as much of what the band released before the masses took notice.
Music Review: The Crossing – ‘At Which Point’ - Blogcritics

3 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

TheCrossing, the elite new-music chamber choir led by Donald Nally, routinely pushes the boundaries of what kinds of music a group of human voices can create. Its recent releases have included David Shapiro’s atheistic mass Sumptuous Planet and a pandemic-themed Christmas album. For At Which Point, their latest release, the choir worked with three composers who take excellent advantage of the ensemble’s strengths and predilections.
Music Review: Susan Botti – ‘River Spirits’ - Blogcritics

1 month ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

The website of composer Susan Botti describes her River Spirits as a “theatrical motet” and a “futuristic abstract fable.” Those two phrases nicely encapsulate the fusion of past and future one can discern in both the instrumental parts and the vocals in this four-movement work. It calls for three voices plus an ensemble of contemporary and early music instruments, including one I’d never encountered before: an electric viola da gamba.
Book & Music Reviews: ‘Decade of Dissent: How 1960s Bob Dylan Changed the World,’ plus the Bongos & Robert Forster - Blogcritics

1 month ago | blogcritics.org | Jeff Burger

If you lined up every copy of every book by and about Bob Dylan, they’d stretch all the way from Highway 61 to Desolation Row. They include volumes that discuss his songs or contain lyrics or sheet music, a memoir, an abstruse novel, umpteen biographies, and assorted scholarly tomes.