Beginning next week, writer Karen Dukess is hosting a series of virtual talks with authors of new fiction and nonfiction via Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. On […]
MUSICIANS
Eric Maul Is Provincetown’s Rebel With a Flute
His weekly online tootin’ is classical sass
“I moved here in the summer of 2019,” says Eric Maul, a Provincetown-based, classically trained flutist. “I’d been living in Boston for five years, and I just wasn’t getting what […]
MUSEUM TOUR
Napi Van Dereck Exhibit Sequel Opens at PAAM
Works by noteworthy women artists are featured
An exhibition of artworks from the collection of Napi and Helen Van Dereck opened last Friday at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. The first installment of this show took […]
MIXING MEDIA
Berger and Motherwell: An Artistic Friendship
The past isn’t always black and white, or red and black
A red sky is bisected by a darker red column, shadowed in black. Affixed are three paper fragments. The one at left is sheet music from Arthur Berger’s Trio for […]
MUSIC
An Indie Playlist for the New Year
Musical picks from Provincetown Independent staff and contributors
For this new edition of the Indie Playlist, the focus was specifically on music videos and filmed performances. The result? “Radiated country music,” Dante pop, psychedelic Baroque, three harpists with […]
EYE FOR AN EAR
Judging Musical Performance on Film
Classical music criticism for the Covid era
As more and more music making goes online — with YouTube videos, pre-recorded concerts, and live-streams — music critics are having to become more like film critics. They are having […]
CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK
Playing for Keeps
In the same week that we were gathering the work of local artists for this special Art & Photography issue to kick off 2021, an article in the New York […]
LOCAL ICONS
The Town Seals of the Outer Cape
A look at our municipal iconography
This article is the first in a series on town seals. Massachusetts is finally close to changing its state flag and state seal, with its problematic image of a sword […]
VIRTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
Good Morning, Provincetown!
‘It takes a village to make a show about our village’
The idea for Wake Up! In Provincetown, a talk show hosted by Harrison Fish and Bob Keary that streams on YouTube on Fridays at 9 a.m., started as an inside […]
WHOSE LIFE IS IT, ANYWAY?
This Is Not an Interview With André Gregory
In This Is Not My Memoir, a provocateur looks back with wit
Preparing for my phone call with actor, playwright, and director André Gregory, I felt a bit like the socially anxious Wallace Shawn at the beginning of My Dinner With André. […]
BOOK REVIEW
Bach to the Drawing Board
In The Way of Bach, Dan Moller makes the missteps of an academic amateur
The concept behind Dan Moller’s recently published The Way of Bach: Three Years With the Man, the Music, and the Piano, is a good one. It tells of the author’s […]
MUSIC
The Indie Playlist
Musical picks from Provincetown Independent staff and contributors
Compiled and edited by Saskia Maxwell Keller Contributors to our first-ever Indie Playlist were given minimal instructions: choose a song or music video that you love and tell us about […]
CONCERT REVIEW
The Joy of Watching A Far Cry
Pieces by young women composers steal the spotlight from Mozart
A Far Cry may be one of the most democratic ensembles out there. This Boston-based orchestra is “self-conducted,” meaning that the players, who call themselves “criers,” take turns leading the […]
BIG BIRDS
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No, It’s Eversource.
“It was so loud I could not hear myself think,” said Elena Ruehr, a composer who splits her time between Brookline and Wellfleet. “I felt like there was a giant […]
RINGING TRUE
Wellfleet’s Congo Church Clocks the Day
A timely examination of the local soundscape
For many in Wellfleet, the sound of bells from the First Congregational Church, at 200 Main St., from around 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., frames their day. It is part […]
