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Culture in the News
Omar Thomas on making “Griot Songs” at GBH
Omar Thomas is a large ensemble composer who’s had work commissioned by Eastman New Jazz Ensemble, the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus, and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. His newest album, “Griot Songs,” was recorded entirely in the GBH Fraser Performance Studio. He spoke to Al Davis and Va Lynda Robinson about the process.
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Ken Burns’ ‘Benjamin Franklin’ finds something new to say about the Founding Father
“We live in a melodramatic age. Every hero has to be perfectly virtuous and every villain has to be perfectly villainous. And that’s not the way it is.” -
Open Studio: Remembering Barkley L. Hendricks and Emilio Delgado, and more
Jared Bowen talks to Richard Thomas about “To Kill a Mockingbird,” looks at the art of painter and photographer Barkley L. Hendricks and pays tribute to Emilio Delgado. -
As war rages in Ukraine, Boston Symphony Orchestra performs powerful anti-war requiem
Britten’s “absolutely brilliant” piece was written in the shadow of WWII and laments the suffering of war.
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