Category: Music Reviews

Miles Davis: My First Concert

February 4, 2013

  Miles Davis: My First Concert Wow…I hadn’t thought about the first concert that I’d attended, for many, many years—so this was a nostalgic journey for me, and one that gave me new perspectives. Interestingly [Read More]

Wading Into Woody’s Deep Pool of Inspiration

September 1, 2012

  September, 2012               In this celebratory season of Woody Guthrie’s 100th Birthday, it is only fitting that we take a stroll down the old cobblestone alleys of Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA. to find [Read More]

Behind The Scenes at Tanglewood – the 75th Anniversary Season

August 1, 2012

                                                                                                                                                            August, 2012       “The world that fiction comes from is fragile. It melts into insignificance against the universe of what is clear and visible and known. It persists because it is based [Read More]

The Stereo Times Staff Recording Recommendations

July 1, 2011

Summer 2011 Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), Plus – Minus, [hat(now)ART 178, Hat Hut Records]. Recommended especially to those with a taste for originality of the avant-garde persuasion. Several important works by this enormously talented, hugely eccentric [Read More]

Classical Epiphanies – Spring Concerts and Gem Recordings

June 5, 2011

    June 2011 The infant Bacchus was throwing a laughing glance from across the balcony. (Bacchus is the Roman adoption of the Greek God, Dionysus, the God of wine, merriment, music making and, on [Read More]

BOB DYLAN AT 70. AN APPRECIATION

June 1, 2011

        BOB DYLAN AT 70. AN APPRECIATION No timeline on the mythic decade that was the 1960’s would be complete without acknowledging the influence of Bob Dylan. While people can (and should) debate whether [Read More]

JOHNNY MATHIS: STILL “WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL”

March 1, 2011

       March, 2011 A couple of months ago, I was looking through a listing of upcoming shows at the Kravis Center in Palm Beach, Florida. Lo and behold, scheduled for March 2nd was [Read More]

Mozart, Grieg: Werke für zwei Klaviere, Tina Margarete Nilssen & Heidi Görtz, pianos

February 4, 2011

 (2L Records 2L57SABD)      February, 2011 When I requested a review disc or two from Morten Lindberg, owner and chief recording engineer of the Norwegian company Lindberg Lyd AS, I was surprised to receive [Read More]

HOLIDAY GRAB BAG OF [WORLDLY] RECORDING GEMS FOR 2010

December 11, 2010

HOLIDAY GRAB BAG OF [WORLDLY] RECORDING GEMS FOR 2010 December 2010                            On a recent October evening, we gather to huddle around the musical fire being stoked by the great conga player Poncho Sanchez and [Read More]

Abbey Simon

May 1, 2009

An Appreciation 05/2009   I first saw the name Abbey Simon on the cover of a vinyl recording of Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit. That was nearly thirty years ago. I was living in a [Read More]

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