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Rock and Roll that is. Sings Like Hell’s February installment was a kind of tribute to the punk end of the American musical melting pot. Jesse Malin, who began his career in 1978 at age 12 in the hardcore band Heart Attack, showed a slight mellowing of the form with a set…
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Leos Janacek’s “The Cunning Little Vixen” is a sort of comic tragedy originally based on a Czech daily comic strip and features lush music based on Czech folk themes. Opera Santa Barbara’s production is set in a fantastical forest of giant flowers and creatures abound, from a frog and a hedgehog to hilarious chickens, while the…
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Doctor Siddhatha Mukherjee wrote the best-seller “The Emperor of All Maladies” about cancer in 2010. The second in a planned trilogy, “The Gene: An Intimate History”(2016), is a kind of follow-up, since genetics have a lot to do with cancer, not only in the mechanics of tumors, but also in why some people and animals…
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You can probably count the number top-notch of Jazz Big Bands on one or two hands, and the most sublime is no doubt the Maria Scneider Orchestra. Bandleader Schneider’s compositions and orchestrations are lush and evocative and unlike any others, taking listeners on beautiful and richly drawn journeys through the landscapes of her original mind. That…
