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Sir Simon Rattle revisits the music of Benjamin Britten and Elim Chan once again draws on her remarkable ear for detail.
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“Soul & Salvation” is a short album, and you’ll be sorry when it’s over. It’s hardly an essential album in Dizzy Gillespie’s long discography, but you won’t regret giving it a listen.
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What have you done to prevent the end of the world? A quartet of documentaries in this year’s Global World Film Festival offer different answers to this nagging question.
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The performance of John Adams’s “City Noir” is swift and characterful, though sometimes pushed perhaps a bit too hard for its own good. The rendition of Leonard Bernstein’s “Serenade” is clear but a bit too safe.
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Gary Clark Jr.’s “JPEG RAW” could be seen as an orchard whose far-reaching sonic branches — nurtured by the rich, fertile, and ancient soil of the blues — stretch into jazz, hip hop, and funk.
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“Arts Fuse” theater critic Christopher Caggiano, among others, found that the new Broadway musical “Water for Elephants” “has very little going for it.” Let’s agree to disagree
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How well or how poorly are we paying homage to our jazz ancestors? Some graves are worthy places of pilgrimage. Others are neglected . . . or unknown.
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The spirited restraint of the pianist’s playing — its omnipresent precision and clarity — sounds contemporary and fresh.
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Design Review: A Singular Art Nouveau Shopfront in Harvard Square
Made over 100 years before the current marketing phrase went abuzz, 1304 Massachusetts Avenue is a charming example of a true immersive retail experience.
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