"I don't know if anybody else can create Stranger Life. But what I do know is that nobody else is going to."
"It's only by letting go and having a tremendous amount of throughput, I think, that you can really find the meaning in the moments."
Welcome to the weekend. These are my selections of the best recordings just released. Here is New In Music This Week: May 12th.
Our top pick is:
CLASSICAL: Maria Dueñas: Beethoven and Beyond (Deutsche Grammophon)
Before telling you how wonderful this album...
"The job of a composer is a lot more complicated than only writing music."
Mahler, Shucked, Lovano and More
"Those three words are primal. Those three words have everything to do with the conflicting desires of when you're ready, when you're not ready."
Anna Thorvaldsdottir, The Crossing, Rickie Lee Jones and Taj Mahal tops this week's list.
"What I like in music is where something magical happens and where there is soul and a life behind that's never going to be predictable."
"We are all people that are imprisoned in this novel of fiction that we write in our heads every day of our lives."
Two operas, two plays, one jazz concert - all former best bets you have another chance to see