Sleater-Kinney are out of the woods, for better or worse

Nearly 20 years ago, when Sleater-Kinney released their towering seventh album, “The Woods,” a compelling case could be made that…

At 70, composer Georg Friedrich Haas encourages self-discovery

His opera “Thomas,” premiered in May 2013, sums up that feeling of suffocation. Based on a libretto by Händl Klaus,…