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Music

He's an artist, he don't look back

He's an artist, he don't look back

An exhibition that's about to open at the Weisman Art Museum explores a pivotal period in Bob Dylan's career, a time that includes his Minnesota years. It reveals a lot about Dylan's ability to transform himself as an artist.
by Chris Roberts

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"The Separation" joins crunchy guitars with crystalline polyphony

"The Separation" joins crunchy guitars with crystalline polyphony

The mystical sounds of a 15th-century choral mass mix with thrashing guitars and crashing drums this weekend at the Walker Art Center. The Walker brings together jazz drummer Bobby Previte with the St. Paul-based Rose Ensemble, a choral group more at home with ethereal medieval chant.
by Karl Gehrke

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Old Mendelssohn can still make new memories

Old Mendelssohn can still make new memories

Why make yet another recording of a warhorse like Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto? Violinist Janine Jansen says every emotion is different each time a piece is performed. She underscores her case with a new CD.
by Julie Amacher

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This weekend's action is at the Concertina Bowl

This weekend's action is at the Concertina Bowl

Football fanatics still have another week before their big day, Super Bowl Sunday, arrives. But for fans of a certain kind of accordion, the biggest bowl event of the year happens Saturday in Blaine, Minnesota -- the Concertina Bowl.
by Chris Roberts

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Aunt Bessie just might be a composer

Aunt Bessie just might be a composer

Over the past decade, the St. Paul-based new music ensemble Zeitgeist has given amateur composers a rare opportunity to get their music played through an annual contest. This year's winners include a physician, a former history teacher and a high school violinist.
by Karl Gehrke

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Mozart would have admired these musicians too

Mozart would have admired these musicians too

The virtuosos in the Boston Symphony Chamber players take on music Mozart wrote for some outstanding wind musicians of his day. Julie Amacher says it's a perfect match.
by Julie Amacher

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Django Reinhardt: the father of Gypsy Jazz

Django Reinhardt: the father of Gypsy Jazz

Guitarist Django Reinhardt would be 97 years old this week. When he was young, a fire mangled his hands, forcing him to come up with new ways to play his favorite instrument. His innovations led to a new type of jazz music that resonated through western Europe even as war tore the continent apart.

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Music from the heart

Music from the heart

A folk singing duo from rural Minnesota finds fulfillment if not riches in music.
by Dan Gunderson

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The draw of Carousel remains

The last time you heard "You'll Never Walk Alone" you were probably wearing a robe and carrying a diploma. But did you know where that song came from? It's from the Rogers and Hammerstein show, "Carousel" and it was an unusual musical for it's time.
by Dale Connelly and Jim Ed Poole

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Dona nobis pickin'

The Twin Cities choral group VocalEssence is mixing mountain and classical music in what may be the first bluegrass mass. Minnesota composer Carol Barnett took on the challenge of blending disparate styles to create a cohesive composition.
by Steve Staruch

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