By Frank Housh My entry into the dark arts of music criticism is a result of my love for chamber music. Since 1990 I have regularly attended UB’s Slee Beethoven […]
Merry Christmas! By Frank Housh 2024 was a good year for live music. Below are reviews of 2024 concerts from Buffalo, Rochester, Darien Lake, and the Chautauqua Institution. They were […]
BPO concert reviews originally published at Media Room September – December 2024 On December 19 The Hive published Part 1 of my 2024 reviews of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, six posts from […]
BPO concert reviews originally published at Media Room January – June 2024 By Frank Housh The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra began in 1935, right before World War II. It is likely […]
UB Center For The Arts December 17, 2024 By Frank Housh As the audience waited for Samara Joy to take the stage at UB’s Center for the Arts Tuesday night, […]
Tuesday, December 17 at UB’s Center for the Arts Samara Joy McLendon was just 19 years old when she won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition and a 21 […]
A Contemporary Novel of Manners By Katherine Xiong Weike Wang has made her name as a writer of contemporary “novels of manners,” a genre made famous by Jane Austen two […]
This delightful, slapstick romp will be at the North Park Thursday, December 5 By Frank Housh Hundreds of Beavers has charmed the film festival circuit and it’s easy to see why. […]
Angelina Jolie Stars As Legendary Soprano Maria Callas By: Frank Housh You don’t have to be an opera lover to enjoy the Maria Callas biopic “Maria,” but it helps. Just […]
Songs of Heroes In An Age of Anxiety By Frank Housh (Above photo, L-R: Tim Fain and Otto Tausk with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, November 22, 2024, Kleinhans Music Hall.) […]
