Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd Guitarist, Dies at 71
The last surviving original member of the classic Southern rock group, he played the soaring slide guitar solo on “Free Bird” and co-wrote “Sweet Home Alabama.”
Posted inBooks and Literature Coppola, Francis Ford La Jolla Playhouse Levine, Justin (Musician) Music Rapp, Adam Taymor, Danya The Outsiders (Play) Theater
‘The Outsiders’ Review: Growing Pains Both Brutal and Poetic
At La Jolla Playhouse, the musical adaptation of the novel and film has considerable appeal, but is weighed down by too many characters and themes.
Posted inBrahms, Johannes Bruckner, Anton Carnegie Hall Classical Music Schoenberg, Arnold Strauss, Richard Thielemann, Christian Vienna Philharmonic
The Vienna Philharmonic Tends the Classics With a Perfect Partner
Christian Thielemann led the storied orchestra in three concerts at Carnegie Hall, including a revelatory performance of Strauss’s “An Alpine Symphony.”
Posted inClassical Music DiDonato, Joyce Machover, Tod Opera Overstory Overture (Opera) Powers, Richard The Overstory (Book)
Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera
The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.