Ex-Chocolate Drop Dom Flemons was keeping Black cowboy music alive, too — his way. Review Crew’s Nora Grace-Flood reports from a stop on his “American Songster” tour.
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Laura Glesby
| Apr 22, 2024 6:02 pm
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“I’ve never, ever gone to a place like this before,” said Darnell Ray, taking in the flurry of queer-affirming healthcare and self-care opportunities that filled the New Haven Pride Center.
(Updated at 5:59 p.m.) The streets around Yale’s downtown campus are back open now that pro-Palestinian protesters who had blocked traffic at the intersection of Grove, Prospect, and College for more than eight hours reached a deal with police to leave — without anyone else getting arrested.
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Brian Slattery
| Apr 22, 2024 1:11 pm
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Composer and violinist Alyssa Chetrick was taking a solo as part of her vertiginous piece, sardonically titled “Equilibrium.” If some of the previous passages had offered a sense of calm, Chetrick was now going for chaos, spurring the ensemble around her to join her. Her phrasing pushed the musicians around her to dig deeper into the music she’d written, as if they were looking to break it. Would they?