Live Log 2023: Power, Passion, And Pain

Contrasts between - and within - recent concerts by Hotline TNT and Talea Ensemble

While we often distinguish types of music through genres, it’s just as easy to put music on a spectrum, loud to soft, for example, or simple to complex, and group things that way. Emotional impact works, too, with a lighthearted pop song perhaps coexisting nicely with a sprightly piece of baroque chamber music. Two recent concerts had me thinking about …