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“As morality shifts,” NPR’s Ann Powers writes, “music does, too, helping people navigate those boundaries.”
Read MoreThis is a vaguely threatening day for New Englanders who love their NPR in duplicate.
Read MoreWhat has NPR’s Terry Gross learned after all these years of probing famous people’s psyches? “We are all mortal. Life is short, and for some life is full of pain.”
Read MoreMaria Tallchief forever changed the idea of what it meant to see America dancing.
Read MoreIsaiah Sheffer’s lasting contribution will be his almost single-handed revival of interest in that most beguiling of fictional forms, the short story.
Read MoreIn his exploration of history, Jack Beatty suggests that World War I, as we know it, was an improbable event.
Read MoreAn exciting month, and that isn’t hyperbole. A couple of North American premieres: a futuristic opera from MIT’s Tod Machover and poet Robert Pinsky and a drama tweaking The New Testament from Howard Brenton. Toss in iconic director Peter Brook staging Beckett, F. Murray Abraham as Shylock, and Car Talk:The Musical and you are talking about taking out the smelling salts
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