Let’s not get too brazenly accustomed to the performers that the Falcon in Marlboro calls “regulars.” Christmas Eve performer Marshall Crenshaw is one such regular; he is also one of the most highly regarded guitar-pop songwriters of the last 30 years, a cognoscenti pick and the owner of a dazzlingly good catalogue of general undervalued records.
Incorporating piano, a horn section and chanteuse “Miz Elizabeth” Bougerol, the popular “hot jazz” ensemble’s repertoire is inspired by the works of Fats Waller, Dinah Washington, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday, ranging in style from Manhattan speakeasies to New Orleans juke joints to prewar Paris cabarets.
Father Richard McKeon, who has been the Church of the Messiah’s rector since 2010, says, “People ask me, ‘Why save the building?’ and I say we have a beautiful building and it has a place in the community.”
The preponderance of revivalist folk music in the new millennium has been scruffy and idiosyncratic by design, some of it
The album covers whirled into psychedelic mandalas and looped action sequences like an Eadweard Muybridge zoopraxiscope, transforming centrifugally into something rife with a post-verbal Jungian symbolism… Some records were legendary for what happened visually when they were spun animate, a living design, intent assumed. Grateful Dead: intent assumed; Led Zeppelin: intent assumed; Pink Floyd: intent assured.
Paul Cohen, a collector of rare saxophones, will bring some of his collection to the Christmas concert at Arlington High School for a “show-and-tell,” including some unusual examples that Brellochs describes as looking “like they’re right out of a Dr. Seuss book.” Cohen’s collection is so good, he adds, “When the Metropolitan Museum of Art had a special exhibit on the saxophone a few years ago, they borrowed instruments from him.”
When composer George Frideric Handel debuted this oratorio in 1742, the reception was modest. But in the years the followed, it grew into one of the best-loved and most-performed choral works in Western music.
According to the tradition that has evolved, any musician can play in a TubaChristmas concert as long as he or she plays an instrument in the tuba family. It’s a sort of collective catharsis of the simmering frustration of always being the poor stepchildren of the orchestra’s wind section
Everett Bradley of the E Street Band brings his funkified holiday classics to Hudson
Nellie McKay, with special guest Timothy Dark, performs at the Towne Crier Café in Beacon on Friday, December 9 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets cost $30. The Towne Crier is located at 379 Main Street in Beacon. For tickets and additional information, visit www.townecrier.com.