I usually dread my annual culling of the Christmas music herd. Truly ... while the “Trapmas Medley” (which DOES hit familiar notes, though a Maybach replaces a one-horse open sleigh in ...

This similarly applies to professional musicians, who lift the music and notes from a page, and apply their own musicality to a performance, bridging the gap between the notes and the human beings ...

dollopy notes can feel like the aural equivalent of watching a lava lamp. Wonderfully hypnotic, but offering little in the way of Gaynor-esque drama. It means ballads like the soupy “Six Shots ...