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Will You Can Be A Wesley be your pick for Rock Artist of the Year? Who will it be, Boston? Make your Nate Silver-style predictions and let me know what you think!
The enduring aspect of Paul Klee’s art is its playfulness, which bubbles up even out of this viscous curatorial treatment.
Director Meg Taintor’s demands on her five young actors – three women and two men — are very high, requiring not only daring, but physical stamina and skill, dance training, mime training, fight training, and musicianship as well as dramatic power.
Translator George Kalogeris’s modernizing does what it should: It brings the poems into the thought-world where modern readers live.
Two impressive documentaries deal with the trials and tribulations of old age and the history of dance in Israel.
As “Lincoln”‘s end credits roll, you feel vaguely dissatisfied and disappointed that the film never achieves the emotional greatness that it might have in the hands of a different director.
Each film demonstrates a distinct female sensibility as well as a strong and unique stylistic vision.
Saariaho’s music is often lush and vibrant, to be sure, but it also can lose track of its musical purpose and meander excessively from time to time. Not so in “Circle Map.”
As a performer, Lorraine Chapman has few peers in the area. Her body has been forged exquisitely in the ballet studio, and further honed by her early professional career as a ballet dancer.
Considered by some to be a guardian of ancient music, Jordi Savall has inspired adulation for a variety of reasons, but in the end it’s because he plays the viol or viola da gamba better than just about anyone else alive.
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