Concert Artists of Baltimore celebrates its silver anniversary season with “Through the Looking Glass,” a benefit gala this Saturday night at the Engineers Club. Black tie is optional, costumes are...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Hearing Julius Hemphill's Dogon A.D. for the first time was a life-changing experience for me. It was the first so-called avant-garde jazz...
Spearheaded by the BSO's Marin Alsop, Baltimore's edition of the Women of the World Festival kicks off today and lasts all weekend at the Meyerhoff, with satellite programs at the Lyric and Theatre...
Longtime indie rock followers might recall that original Mercury Rev frontman David Baker lived in Baltimore for awhile in the early 1990s. He always seemed like a nice but fragile kind of guy, and...
As far as historic, back-in-the-day music venues go, the Royal and Howard theaters top the list in this region. Both of them stopped operating decades ago, but they've become mythic in the...
Soulful Symphony performs conductor Darin Atwater's Evolution of a People at the Hippodrome tonight. A tribute to the multi-faceted culture of African Americans, the piece includes a photo narrative...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I’ll give you a Baltimore memory from my childhood. I used to put on an LP of Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition (the Ravel...
Peabody and Johns Hopkins have announced a new concert series, Jazz at the Johns Hopkins Club. Backed by Hopkins president/jazz fan Ron Daniels and curated by Gary Thomas, Peabody's director of jazz...
Ex-Ponytail guitarist Dustin Wong just posted the first song to come out of his intriguing "Say Your Dream, Create a Sound" project. To coincide with the release of his new solo disc (Dreams Say,...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Bamboozled, the Spike Lee movie. It’s visually stimulating, musically rich—I love the Bruce Hornsby song (“Shadowlands”) at the end)—the...
