Entertainment & Arts
To those of you with a desire to venture beyond “The Four Seasons,” perhaps even beyond Vivaldi, may I recommend Tartini?
Oct. 29, 1995
** 1/2 VANESSA-MAE: The Original “Four Seasons” EMI
Feb. 21, 1999
Technology and the Internet
Audio: New sound- reproduction system eliminates the need for loudspeakers.
Nov. 11, 1996
Acoustics, lighting and total ambience affect the listening experience more than we sometimes think.
Oct. 17, 1996
Michelle Makarski: “To Be Sung on the Water” Michelle Makarski, violin. Ronald Copes, viola.
April 16, 2006
It’s facile but irresistible to link violinist Hilary Hahn’s smoldering playing to the fire alarms that went off during her recital Sunday at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Jan. 23, 2007
Music
Pop For all his surf-rock influences, Frank Black’s career has missed the big commercial wave for alternative rock, even though his late ‘80s and early ‘90s band, the Pixies, played an important role as a crucial alt-rock touchstone for the likes of Nirvana.
Aug. 22, 1996
Much as one might like to lament the commercialization of Itzhak Perlman, omnipresent star of stage, small screen and recordings, a name familiar even to those otherwise uninterested in “classical” music, the personable violinist confounds us time and again by refusing to become the prisoner of that commercialization.
Jan. 12, 1986
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto. Tartini: Violin Sonata (“The Devil’s Trill”); various encores.
Jan. 27, 1991