Exhibitionist

Baltimore's symphony for the Dead

And we thought the Cowboy Junkies were wild... The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is readying "Dead Symphony No. 6," inspired by the music of the Grateful Dead and to be performed on what would have bee...

WORLD MUSIC & CRASHarts fall season

KAL Friday, September 19, 8pm Somerville Theatre AL-KINDÎ & THE WHIRLING DERVISHES OF DAMASCUS Saturday, September 20, 8:30pm Sanders Theatre VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ Saturday, September 27, 8pm Somerville T...

Phoenix music critic, ethics

So should a music critic allow an institution he covers to set his poems to music – and pay his expenses? I say not, as does the Boston Globe’s ethics policy. The Boston Phoenix disagrees. I raise thi...

Levine released, growth malignant

The Boston Symphony has released an update on maestro James Levine's condition: Levine, who was hospitalized on Tuesday, July 15, for surgery to remove a growth in his kidney, was released from the ho...

Circus Smirkus fall

I conducted this interview with a Circus Smirkus performer in Sunday's Boston Globe Magazine. That's why I got a call today from a woman who went to Sunday's 11 a.m. show and was horrified by a spill ...

David Carr, addict

This whole David Carr thing is, as we used to say in the late '90s, off the hook. Carr's website is hard to leave once you're sucked in... and I haven't even read the book yet....

El Greco, going, going...

Nine days and counting until the Museum of Fine Arts sends El Greco and Antonio Lopez Garcia packing. (Fear not, the heads remain.)...

Steven Tyler laid off, with chart

Another brilliant article from The Onion. BOSTON—After years of relative stability, the Aerosmith unemployment rate soared to an all-time high of 20 percent Monday following the downsizing of the band...

Buy Lang Lang's red piano

Liberace, where have you gone? Apparently, into the body of Lang Lang. The pianist is auctioning off the red piano he played Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 on this week at a free concert in Centra...

Biopsy to be done on Levine's cyst

An additional word from the maestro's brother: We are happy to report that James Levine's surgery, which took place on Tuesday, went exactly as planned and expected, and has been described by the doct...