Songs For Mary Launches at Minotti Boston

Songs For Mary Launches at Minotti Boston

Songs For Mary Kicked Off With a Sold-Out Soundtrack Release Party at Minotti Boston on February 7th. Top Boston-area Designers, Musicians, Artists, Producers, and Esteemed Guests packed Minotti Boston on February 7 to celebrate the Songs For Mary Soundtrack release....
Rise! A Conversation With the Past

Rise! A Conversation With the Past

By Larry Katz A rap song pleading for the preservation of the home of an opera company? Unexpected. But no more unexpected than the collaboration between a 29-year-old Houston rapper, Michael Berry, and a 60-year-old Boston songwriter, Dawn Carroll. The two partnered...
Tell Tchaikovsky the News

Tell Tchaikovsky the News

By Larry Katz Music can surprise you. It can sneak into your head, penetrate your soul and become a part of you, sometimes against all expectations. More than 30 years ago, Dawn Carroll was a hard rock singer when she heard a piece by Tchaikovsky that has stuck with...
Jonnet Solomon – An Extraordinary Treasure

Jonnet Solomon – An Extraordinary Treasure

By Larry Katz One day in 2000 while driving along Apple Street in Pittsburgh, Jonnet Solomon noticed a historical marker in front of a large, abandoned house. Solomon, a young woman who had emigrated to the United States from Guyana in 1984 with her family when she...