Sergei Rachmaninoff figures prominently throughout Spring Forward, Fall Back, a story of fathers and sons and the sons that come next, of musical connection and of cultural identity. The Russian composer enters first as an unseen neighbor of the protaganist Richard’s younger self; he plays away unseen in the downstairs apartment he inhabits, much to Richard’s father’s annoyance. Perhaps in an act of rebellion, or perhaps out of genuine affection for his work, Rachmaninoff becomes…

FRIDAY: >> New York’s Latin-funk collective Yerba Buena, the energetic offspring of Venezuelan-born producer Andrés Levin and his Cuban-born wife Ileana Padrón (aka Cucu Diamantes), is the only band touring the country today that could bring together a guest artist line-up for their latest album, Island Life, that includes M1 from Dead Prez, comedian and actor John Leguizamo, and gypsy punks Gogol Bordello. The combo may occasionally feel like its trying to be an Afro-Cuban…