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Opera Album Review: A Major New Opera that the Met Has Ignored — Tobias Picker’s “Awakenings”

June 22, 2024
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This world-premiere recording lets us hear one of the most effective recent operas, based on the famous book by Dr. Oliver Sacks.

Tribeca Film Festival 2024, Part Two — Absurdism Kazakh-style and British Masters

June 21, 2024
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Two standouts at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival: “Bikechess” and “Made in England: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger”.

Actor Remembrance: Donald Sutherland — 10 Films to Watch, in Love and Awe

June 21, 2024
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Here are films I’ve most loved watching the late Donald Sutherland in over the years.

Film Review: “The Bikeriders” – Born to be Riled

June 21, 2024
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A 1968 book of photos and interviews on a motorcycle club makes a fictionalized transition to the screen.

Musician Interview: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Celebrate the 20th Anniversary Of “Shake the Sheets”

June 20, 2024
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“I would say that a good half of ‘Shake the Sheets’ has always remained in our set. We haven’t necessarily played all of those songs at every show, but they’ve been rotating in and out all the time over the last 20 years.”

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

June 20, 2024
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This week’s poem: Laurence O’Dwyer’s “Aurora at Kvalvika”

Book Review: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture

June 20, 2024
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California beach culture didn’t spring full blown from the ocean riding a longboard, but the closest you will come to a founding figure is the legendary native Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku.

Musician Interview: Yes’s Jon Anderson on Teaming Up with The Band Geeks

June 19, 2024
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“I’m going to be 80 in October, and what a way to spend your 80th year on the planet, to be able to go out and do rock ‘n’ roll shows everywhere!”

Jazz Album Review: Tomasz Stanko’s “September Night” — A Slightly Mysterious Lyricism

June 19, 2024
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What seems remarkable here is the way that trumpeter Tomasz Stanko enters into unplanned conversational interchanges, including flickers of wit, with the other members of the quartet.

Classical Music Album Review: Pavel Kolesnikov & Samson Tsoy — A Fabulous Four-Hand Team

June 18, 2024
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Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy’s debut CD is breathtaking, released a few months after the pair’s acclaimed performance at Carnegie Hall earlier this year.

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