The performer and composerโs career garnered international acclaim and spanned six decades.
Music
Album Review | ‘Upside Down’ by Chaz & The Dazzlers
The groupโs sonic contemplation of childhood puts the โtweeโ in โtweenager.โ
Album Review | ‘Homesick’ by Flying Object
Flying Objectโs first full-length album sounds best when windows are down and defenses are up.
Music Review | ‘MISSING’
Eastman School of Music’s Timothy Long conducts the music from an opera about a missing Indigenous girl.
Sounds of summer
Finger Lakes Opera welcomes an elevated creative team and the return of a hometown soprano for its July and August shows.
Concert Review | Thundercat
The bass virtuoso gave a neo-soul jazz masterclass at Kodak Hall on June 26.
Album Review | ‘Be Cool’ by Nancy Kelly
The vocal jazz performer both warms and cools with a new collection.
Concert Review | Waxahatchee
The top voice in indie Americana stunned at Beak & Skiff on June 21 with MJ Lenderman and Hurray for the Riff Raff.
Album Review | ‘We Must Build Fire’
Finger Lakes troubadour Aaron Lipp offers a new self-produced, full-band solo work.
Music Review | ‘Valve/Whatever’
The Rochester band’s first release packs an astounding sum of melody and attitude into just two tracks.
Musical portals
Mount Hope World Singers present the highly ambitious “The Hundred Windows” on June 5 and 7.
Album Review | ‘Walk With Me, My Joy’
Composer Daniel Pesca provides a musical companion to memory.






