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Violinist Maria Ioudenitch seems to know how to get directly at the expressive core of this fare without devolving into showboating or histrionics.
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Set designer Sara Brown creates theater wizardry through the assistance of digital tools, not a magic wand.
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Some of France’s best early-music singers and a splendid period-instrument band make this Zoroastre a perfect introduction to the pleasures of Baroque music.
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For real change to happen, argues Judith Herman, “crimes of dominance and subordination would need to be approached as a matter of public health as well as public safety, with prevention as a primary goal.”
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Despite their stylistic differences, Robert Barry and Martin Puryear share a similar goal: to include us in their respective inquiries into the nature of mind and liberty, but not do the work for us.
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em>Realistic storylines ground Platonic‘s comedy in recognizable trials and tribulations — and usefully steers it away from the tired can men-and-women-be-buddies debate.
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This album may be too mellow, too grim, too serious for the average listener but hear me: This is an amazing and important work of art, quite possibly the legendary songwriter’s own elegy.
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The biography is a workmanlike introduction, valuable because it brings a measured understanding to Osip Mandelstam’s life and poetry as well as to the horrific decades he lived through.
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This week’s poem: Amy King’s “The Busyness of Birds.
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Design Commentary: Department of Play — Creating a New Urban Planning Paradigm
Participatory, small-scale planning is a powerful step forward because it doesn’t pay lip service to cliches about “listening to the community.”
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