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Axis. 13 Lansdowne St., Boston. 262-2437. Rock for Walden Woods CD release party on Thursday, Dec. 10 DJ Debo downstairs...
Middle East. 472 Mass Ave. 354-8238. Upstairs: Scatterfield on Friday, Dec. 11. The Drovers on Saturday, Dec. 12. Downstairs: CD Release Party of Chuck with Random House of Soul and Aria on Thursday, Dec. 10. World Saxophone Quartet on Friday, Dec. 11 at 8 p.m. Brazilian Jazz Mater Ivo Perelman on Saturday...
...same sort of splash as the composer's earlier Nixon in China? The controversial subject matter -- the murder of an American Jew by Palestinian terrorists -- may be one reason, and Peter Sellars' murky staging at the premiere last year in Brussels another. But the new Nonesuch original-cast CD (which coincides with an updated production in San Francisco) reveals the real explanation: Adams' lush score is fundamentally an oratorio, lacking Nixon's sharp characterization and big set pieces. This, however, is good news for the recording, for Klinghoffer's reflective soliloquies and choruses make the work better suited to home...
Nobody's going to like all of Floored Genius--Julian Cope has just been too many different musicians for that. But that's why they invented programmable CD players. For the most part, the album successfully saves this batty prodigy from his own judgment. The world may have missed out on Julian Cope; Floored Genius means you don't have...
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY PIANISM IS shrouded in a golden-era haze, but just how good was it really? A new double CD from Pearl Records, THE PUPILS OF LISZT, provides some clues. Here are such pedagogic scions of the Hungarian firebrand as Eugen D'Albert, Moriz Rosenthal, Arthur Friedheim and six others. Even allowing for poor recording quality and the advanced age of some of the performers, what is remarkable is how ordinary most of the playing is. Only the dazzling if sometimes clumsy Rosenthal and the elegant Jose Vianna da Motta would get a second listen today. Friedheim...