“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 […]
Music
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 […]
PERFORMANCE
Bitch Is Back in Provincetown
She has a new album and video of ‘Pussy Manifesto’
“It’s a new year/ or about to be/ I wanna forgive/ everything that has harmed me.” These are the opening lyrics of the song “New Year,” by Bitch, formerly half […]
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 […]
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 […]
LIGHTS FANTASTIC
Provincetown DJ Chris Racine Wants to Wow You
Designing light shows has been his lifelong passion
“I’ve liked playing with lights since I was a kid,” says Chris Racine, one of Provincetown’s most sought after DJs and lighting-effect designers. Racine and his collaborator, Shelley Jennings, are […]
MUSIC MATTERS
The Cape Youth Orchestra Plays On
One local ensemble persists in supporting the next generation of musicians
A dozen or so students watch, intently, as Paige Wayner, a flutist in the Cape Youth Orchestra, prepares to play Ernest Bloch’s Suite Modale in a master class for Zachary […]
THAT WAS THEN
Provincetown’s Forgotten Symphony Orchestra
How Joseph Hawthorne tried to build a Cape Tip Tanglewood
Did you know that Provincetown used to have a symphony? The Provincetown Symphony Orchestra, sometimes called the Provincetown Symphony Society, was founded in 1955 by the conductor Joseph Hawthorne. The […]
NATIVE TALENT
Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor Won’t Let Covid Slow Him Down
A Renaissance man from Mashpee and the Bronx
“I grew up in both the Bronx and Mashpee,” says Morgan James Peters, also known as Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor, in his recording studio, Polyphonic Studios, in Buzzards Bay. “My mom’s […]
SIGHT AND SOUND
Classical Crossover: Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Music
Portraits of cellists offer insights on Provincetown arts
The viewer is immediately drawn to the eyes. This is true of many paintings by Provincetown art colony founder Charles Webster Hawthorne. They are dark brown and serious. The glint […]
PERFORMANCES
Genie Morrow Sings of the Past and of Renewal
Her Payomet concert with Sputnik the Band features songs about James Dean
Sitting at the top of a set of weathered wooden stairs overlooking the ocean, Genie Morrow seems to belong in Wellfleet’s wild, windswept landscape. “I believe we can access creativity […]
CONCERT REVIEW
Renowned Baroque Cellist Performs in Cotuit
Phoebe Carrai provides a thrilling return to live music and Bach
“This is the first indoor [musical] event that anyone on the Cape can experience since February,” said David Kuehn, executive director of Cotuit Center for the Arts, introducing a solo […]
