Cultural Attaché

Welcome to New In Music This Week: October 17th where contemporary classical music and vinyl re-issues of some great jazz albums populate this week's list. There is also a tango opera and Gilbert & Sullivan as you've never heard them before. My top pick this week is: CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL MUSIC: STRING QUARTETS - Travis Laplante/JACK Quartet – New Amsterdam Records Travis Laplante is not...

When Maurice Ravel composed Boléro in 1928, he could not have known that the relentless, hypnotic rhythm that made it one of the most performed works of the twentieth century would also come to embody the early symptoms of his own neurological decline. Nearly a century later, playwright, actor, and composer Jake Broder has found in that same music...

“This piece is about silence—even though it’s filled with sound.”

Manuel Oliver stars in his one-man show "Guac" at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre

Four jazz albums, three classical and one opera recording to discover this week

A woman scorned, a boy too tall and some wicked show business tales are in store.

Gavin Creel's musical "Walk on Through: Live at MCC" tops this week's list

Success isn't ticket sales. Success is that it happens.

Hip Hop meets Shakespeare in "Rome Sweet Rome" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Anna Clyne's "Abstractions" with Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra tops this week's list