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Review: Laurie Anderson Gets Back to Having a Good Time
With the jazz combo Sexmob, this enduring avant-gardist revisited vintage and recent songs with a grooving spirit.
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Steven Lutvak, Whose Darkly Comic Show Won a Tony, Dies at 64
He wrote several musicals without attracting much notice. Then he struck Broadway gold with “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder.”
Posted inBlack People Boulogne, Joseph (1745-99) Classical Music Ellis, Monica (Musician) Gateways Music Festival Imani Winds Koonce, Lee League of American Orchestras Rashad, Phylicia
Camaraderie and Visibility: A Festival for Black Classical Musicians
“You feel like you’re home,” a bassoonist said of the Gateways Music Festival, which for 30 years has provided Black musicians with performing opportunities.
Posted inBley, Carla Deaths (Obituaries) ECM (Record Label) Escalator Over the Hill (Album) Haden, Charlie (1937-2014) Jazz Liberation Music Orchestra Music Watt (Record Label)
Carla Bley, Jazz Composer, Arranger and Provocateur, Dies at 87
Her music, which ranged from chamber miniatures to blaring fanfares, was suffused with a slyly subversive attitude.