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A single listen to The Salt Collective’s album disabused me of my initial skepticism. The recording is as enjoyable and interesting as one would hope for from an effort featuring this gang of eight.
This Week’s Poem: Douglas Rothschild’s “On the EVE of the THREE KINGS”
Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka, under conductor Christophe Rousset, shows why Berlioz and others loved “La Vestale”.
It was worth driving over 70 miles of snowy roads to be rewarded with such invigorating heat. Bravo tutti.
The holidays and their aftermath are not always a time of cheer for families. Two recent children’s books provide empathy and understanding.
It may not be one of ambient music’s masterworks, but this 2007 album deserved far better treatment than utter neglect from Lou Reed fans.
A death is routinely at the center of Claudia Piñeiro’s fiction, but the corpse sparks provocative questions about the way things are, not just an investigation into finding the murderer.
Here’s a peek at 10 art house films that this critic is looking forward to in the first half of 2024.
This is an epic, breathtakingly moving, and unforgettable film about an elemental fight against cold, starvation, and fear.
For many years now, the Francis Davis Jazz Poll has collected brief lists of important jazz figures who passed in the previous year.
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