Ani DiFranco With Haley Heynderickx Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Great Barrington, Mass. June 17, 2018 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., June 18, 2018) – For nearly 30 years, Ani DiFranco has been firing off manifestos-in-song about politics as well as odes to love and heartbreak (and, more recently, reflections on motherhood).…
The Orchestra Now Leon Botstein, conductor Peter Serkin, Anna Polonsky, soloists Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium May 3, 2018 Review by Seth Rogovoy (NEW YORK, N.Y., May 4, 2018) – The Orchestra Now (TON), an orchestra of young professionals based at Bard College, presented an adventurous and challenging program of 20th-century music at Carnegie Hall…
The Orchestra Now (TON) Hudson Hall Hudson, N.Y. Sunday, March 18, 2018 Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Conductor James Bagwell and The Orchestra Now (TON) brought what as far as anyone knows was the first orchestral performance ever to Hudson Hall, formerly known as the Hudson Opera House, on Sunday afternoon,…
David Byrne Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) Kingston, N.Y. Saturday, March 10, 2018 Review and photo by Seth Rogovoy (KINGSTON, N.Y., March 10, 2018) – Unlike most of his rock ‘n’ roll peers in their mid-60s or older, David Byrne showed no signs of waning creativity or imagination in his terrific, sold-out concert at…
Review by Seth Rogovoy If I’m lucky, I stumble upon one new (or new to me) musical artist per year who captures my attention in such a way as to make me an instant fan and a believer that there are still musical discoveries to be made and new voices that can vie with…
Review by Seth Rogovoy Josh Waletzky, Passengers (Waletzky Music) Several decades into the Yiddish song revival – part and parcel of the overall revival of the Yiddish language, Yiddish culture, and klezmer music – we are now enjoying a full-fledged renaissance of creativity in the form of new works. Josh Waletzky is at…
The Principles of Uncertainty by John Heginbotham and Maira Kalman Jacob’s Pillow Dance Becket, Mass. August 26, 2017 Review by Seth Rogovoy (BECKET, Mass.) – The curtain came down this past weekend in the Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow Dance on the world premiere of “The Principles of Uncertainty,” a wild and wacky collaboration…
by Seth Rogovoy (CHATHAM and MILLBROOK, N.Y.) – Barbara Bonner, author of the award-winning Inspiring Generosity, will be signing copies of her new book, Inspiring Courage, at the Millbrook Literary Festival on Saturday, May 20, and at the Chatham Bookstore on Sunday, May 21, at 2pm. Inspiring Courage is a timely call to action…
To say that it was well worth the 11-year wait for “Avocet,” the follow-up to Jennifer Kimball’s terrific sophomore effort, “Oh Hear Us,” is at once to state the obvious – I mean, what other choice did we have but to wait? – but also to celebrate the arrival of a new recording by one…
Frank London is an alchemist of ingenious trad-rad fusions – always with one foot in the Old World and the other in the avant-garde. On “Astro-Hungarian Jewish Music” he conjures up a truly spectral blend of Hungarian Jewish folk music with downtown punk and jazz, creating something entirely new and surprising, yet utterly logical and…
