Local filmmaker Michael Lawrence embarked on a labor of love two years ago, filming contemporary musicians playing their favorite Bach pieces and talking about them. Like any magical...
I emailed local pianist Joel Holmes earlier this week to ask about his new CD, African Skies. Holmes, as it turns out, was in Brazil touring with trumpeter Roy Hargrove. Hargrove's version of Weldon...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
A Mark Rothko retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1998. Standing in a large room with those large, luminescent works vibrating all...
Baltimore's Hilary Hahn won a Grammy last night for her recording of the Schoenberg/Sibelius Concertos. She returns triumphantly to town on June 9th for a concert with Marin Alsop and the BSO. They'...
Clarinetist and Peabody faculty member Anthony McGill (right) performed "Air and Simple Gifts" with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, and pianist Gabriela Montero at the Obama...
Inspired by tomorrow's inauguration of Barack Obama, Peabody Jazz Studies Director Gary Thomas and George Washington University Professor Herman Burney have collaborated on an improvisational piece...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
My first art form was music. I got my first set of drums when I was 14 years old. Within a few years I was playing in a number of bands...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The Shining by Stanley Kubrick - Specifically the music in the film. How could you know at 15 years old that abstract sound could be just...
No, it's not Columbia's Frank Gehry-designed music amphitheater that's for sale. It's the new disc from Animal Collective, those expat Baltimoreans who've become the critical darlings of indie rock...
A new song by Baltimore's mighty Wye Oak is a highlight of the CD in the new issue of Esopus, the fabulous art magazine put out by Carroll County native Tod Lippy. All the songs were inspired by...
