Seven new recordings to explore this weekend
"There's no rule that says you can't do this. This tradition has evolved over time because of that."
Fourteen new albums to explore this weekend
"Yet the questions must continue to be posed. The audience must continue to be involved."
"I don't want to hear people regurgitate what they know. That's not interesting to me. I want to hear people play what they don't know. That's when it gets good."
Five classical albums, three jazz albums and a contemporary opera are featured
19 albums worth trying to find with an emphasis on jazz
"I just melt into this anthemic sort of otherness that just sort of exists. And maybe otherness is really the word for it."
Eight new albums worth exploring this last weekend of March 2024
This evening, I will be attending a concert at the Los Angeles Philharmonic where conductor/composer Michael Tilson Thomas will lead the orchestra in the first of three performances of Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.
This would put me on a path...