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Music

New Classical Tracks: Songs of Armenia, haunting and lyrical

New Classical Tracks: Songs of Armenia, haunting and lyrical

Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian appears in opera houses throughout the world. But on her new disc, she returns to music from her own heritage -- the songs of the composer Gomidas, considered the founder of Armenian classical music.
by Julie Amacher

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Director of new documentary wanted to get inside Garrison Keillor's head

Director of new documentary wanted to get inside Garrison Keillor's head

A new documentary about Garrison Keillor starts a weeklong run at the Oak Street Cinema tonight. "Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes" follows the humorist and radio host through many months of writing and performing.
by Tom Crann

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Marcus and Haynes reconsider Dylan

Marcus and Haynes reconsider Dylan

Cultural critic Greil Marcus, who has written for Rolling Stone for decades, and is an expert on Bob Dylan is teaching a special course at the U of M this fall. Later today in the first of two public lectures Marcus will interview film director Todd Haynes.
by Euan Kerr

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Haunted basement attracts while it scares

Haunted basement attracts while it scares

People are flocking to the Soap Factory gallery in Minneapolis to be scared. The gallery, just across the river from downtown, is making use of its 125-year-old building to present an artist-designed Haunted Basement.
by Euan Kerr

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Jazz influences and Brazilian poetry come to the SPCO

Jazz influences and Brazilian poetry come to the SPCO

What do you get when you cross a grammy award-winning jazz composer, one of the top sopranos in the world and the words of a Brazilian poet? This weekend, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra fans will find out.
by Euan Kerr

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New Classical Tracks: Minnesota's Beethoven

New Classical Tracks: Minnesota's Beethoven

The first Beethoven recordings by Osmo Vanska and the Minnesota Orchestra received rave reviews and whetted listeners' appetites for more. Now, with their newest disc, the cycle of nine symphonies is complete.
by Julie Amacher

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