Arturo Márquez’s violin concerto was the centerpiece of a concert conducted by the Tucson Symphony’s José Luis Gómez.
Toshi and Bernice Johnson Reagon’s operatic rendering of Octavia Butler’s novel is scarily on point but also musically winning.
Music complements visual curators’ work at the Gardner, and Steel’s innovations have brought programming to a new level of vitality.
The orchestra and director Daniel Hope continue to program inventively, be it a Baroque concert or a multimedia adaptation of Moby-Dick.
The singer-songwriter discusses her collaboration with string quartet Brooklyn Rider, celebrating the power of beauty as a political act.